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. 2012 May 7;13:26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2369-13-26

Table 3.

Interaction between waist-to-height ratio and sex, age, type 2 diabetes, hypertension

      Dif 95 %-CI p-value interaction
Sex
WHtR
(per 0.1)
0.355
0.154-0.555
 
 
Sex
(male)
−0.55
−1.52-0.43
 
 
WHtR *Sex
 
0.047
−0.131-0.225
0.60
Age
WHtR
 
0.729
0.158-1.300
 
 
Age
(years)
0.04
−0.02-0.11
 
 
WHtR *Age
 
−0.008
−0.020-0.004
0.19
Type 2 diabetes
WHtR
(per 0.1)
0.383
0.186-0.579
 
 
Type 2 diabetes
 
1.45
0.00-2.89
 
 
WHtR *Type 2 diabetes
 
−0.120
−0.354-0.114
0.32
Hypertension
WHtR
(per 0.1)
0.334
0.133-0.535
 
 
Hypertension
 
−0.15
−1.16-0.87
 
  WHtR *Hypertension   0.115 −0.060-0.291 0.20

Dif = difference, CI = confidence interval, WHtR = waist-to-height ratio, bold = p-value ≤0.05 and p ≤ 0.10 for the interaction term, Model includes sex, age, ethnicity, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and listed interaction term.