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. 2014 Jun 3;9(6):e98926. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098926

Table 4. Indexes of additive biological interactive effect of obesity and central obesity on elevated urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio.

Measure Un-adjusted Adjusted
Estimate Lower Upper Estimate Lower Upper
RERI 0.960 0.073 1.847 0.798 0.119 1.476
AP 0.352 0.069 0.635 0.439 0.110 0.768
S 2.252 0.861 5.894 42.743 - -

RERI, the relative excess risk because of the interaction; AP, the attributable proportion because of the interaction; S, the synergy index. If there was no biological interaction, the confidence interval of RERI and AP include 0, and the confidence interval of S contains 1.