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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2012 Aug 12;55(11):2954–2962. doi: 10.1007/s00125-012-2674-2

Table 3.

ORs of type 2 diabetes and dyslipidaemia according to quartiles of trans-18:2 fatty acids

trans-18:2 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 p for trend
Median 0.106 0.138 0.167 0.225
Type 2 diabetesa 112 105 101 107
 Model 1 1 0.83 (0.62, 1.12) 0.73 (0.54, 0.98) 0.78 (0.58, 1.06) 0.12
 Model 2 1 0.78 (0.58, 1.05) 0.66 (0.49, 0.90) 0.71 (0.52, 0.98) 0.05
 Model 3 1 0.81 (0.60, 1.10) 0.71 (0.52, 0.96) 0.76 (0.55, 1.04) 0.12
Hypertriacylglycer olaemiaa,b,c 104 135 180 201
 Model 1 1 1.25 (0.94, 1.66) 1.72 (1.31, 2.27) 1.88 (1.43, 2.48) <0.0001
 Model 2 1 1.15 (0.86, 1.55) 1.67 (1.26, 2.22) 1.91 (1.43, 2.54) <0.0001
 Model 3 1 1.27 (0.94, 1.71) 1.98 (1.48, 2.65) 2.34 (1.73, 3.17) <0.0001
High total cholesterola,b,c 143 177 216 213
 Model 1 1 1.18 (0.91, 1.53) 1.38 (1.07, 1.78) 1.34 (1.03, 1.73) 0.03
 Model 2 1 1.15 (0.88, 1.50) 1.34 (1.04, 1.74) 1.32 (1.02, 1.72) 0.04
 Model 3 1 1.15 (0.89, 1.51) 1.36 (1.04, 1.76) 1.29 (0.98, 1.70) 0.05
High LDL-cholesterola,b,c 231 277 323 334
 Model 1 1 1.16 (0.92, 1.46) 1.33 (1.06, 1.67) 1.38 (1.09, 1.74) 0.007
 Model 2 1 1.12 (0.88, 1.41) 1.27 (1.01, 1.61) 1.33 (1.05, 1.68) 0.02
 Model 3 1 1.13 (0.89, 1.43) 1.29 (1.02, 1.64) 1.31 (1.02, 1.68) 0.03
Low HDL-cholesterola,b 280 280 290 289
 Model 1 1 1.00 (0.80, 1.25) 0.99 (0.79, 1.24) 1.01 (0.80, 1.27) 0.95
 Model 2 1 0.94 (0.74, 1.19) 0.93 (0.73, 1.17) 0.97 (0.76, 1.24) 0.86
 Model 3 1 0.98 (0.78, 1.25) 1.00 (0.78, 1.28) 1.12 (0.86, 1.44) 0.34

Model 1: adjusted for age, sex and north/south and urban/rural location

Model 2: further adjusted for family history of chronic diseases, education, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity and BMI

Model 3: further adjusted for saturated fatty acids and trans-18:1 fatty acids in erythrocytes

a

Numbers of participants in Q1–Q4 were 694, 694, 693 and 694, respectively. Numbers of cases in each quartile are shown

b

Participants (n=332) who took fish oil supplements or hypolipidaemic drugs were excluded

c

Defined by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/Adult Treatment Panel III criteria for borderline high (1.7 mmol/l for triacylglycerol, 5.17 mmol/l for total cholesterol and 3.4 mmol/l for LDL-cholesterol)