Table 2.
Median MBL level (interquartile range in brackets) and genotype distribution in study subjects according to ethnicity and cardiovascular complications
| Median MBL level | % MBL genotype (absolute number in brackets) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| A/A | A/O | O/O | ||
| Cross sectional | ||||
| South Asians (n = 168) | 476 μg/L (143-1536) | 57 (93) | 35 (58) | 8 (13)* |
| Caucasians [7] | 60 | 36 | 4 | |
| Longitudinal | ||||
| cardiovascular event† (n = 22) | 390 μg/L (77-1348) | 50 (11) | 20 (4) | 30 (7)‡ |
| no cardiovascular event (112) | 466 μg/L (139-1545) | 56 (63) | 37 (41) | 7 (8) |
† Cardiovascular event: see text for definition
*P = 0.226 (% O/O in South Asians compared to Caucasians)
‡ P = 0.004 (% O/O in subjects with cardiovascular event compared to subjects without cardiovascular event)