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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Sci. 2014 May;347(5):357–363. doi: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31829555f0

Table 3.

Final model: hsCRP geometric mean ratios for adolescent and adult participants.

Variable GMR (95% CI) p-value
Age 0.998 (0.987, 1.009) 0.719
Gender female 1.27 (1.10, 1.46) <.001
Smoke 0.97 (0.82, 1.14) 0.711
Alcohol consumption 1.05 (0.90, 1.23) 0.555
HTN Rx 1.15 (0.96, 1.38) 0.125
Waist circumference (cm) 1.013 (1.005, 1.021) 0.002
SBP 0.994 (0.989, 1.000) 0.064
DBP 1.006 (0.997, 1.014) 0.182
Adiponectin 0.87 (0.78, 0.97) 0.014
Log IL6 1.55 (1.40, 1.71) <.001

Adolescent (vs. adult) 0.53 (0.40, 0.71) <.001
BMI 1.01 (0.99, 1.03) 0.303

Adolescent * BMI Interaction 1.03 (1.01, 1.05) 0.002

Log HOMA 1.06 (0.95, 1.18) 0.317

Adolescent * Log HOMA Interaction 1.25 (1.02, 1.52) 0.028

Log TNFα 1.09 (0.95, 1.24) 0.213

Adolescent * Log TNFα Interaction 0.68 (0.50, 0.94) 0.020

Continuous predictors were mean-centered. GMR: geometric mean ratio

log-transformed data