Table 4.

Mean (SE) insulin resistance^* comparing persons by HCV status within diabetes categories

	HCV negative	Anti-HCV+	HCV RNA+
Normal
Unadjusted	2.10 (0.03)	1.80 (0.16)	1.97 (0.23)
Age-adjusted	1.98 (0.03)	1.78 (0.17)	2.00 (0.23)
Multivariate-adjusted†	2.33 (0.04)	2.48 (0.18)	2.70 (0.22)
Pre-diabetes
Unadjusted	3.67 (0.06)	4.23 (0.36)	4.19 (0.43)
Age-adjusted	3.80 (0.07)	4.30 (0.36)	4.28 (0.43)
Multivariate-adjusted†	3.41 (0.06)	4.25 (0.33)‡	4.36 (0.38)‡

SE, standard error; HCV, hepatitis C virus; anti-HCV, HCV antibody.

^*Estimated using Homeostasis Model Assessment (HOMA).

^†Adjusted for age, sex, race-ethnicity, education, alcohol use, smoking status, BMI, elevated C-reactive protein, and blood transfusion before 1992.

^‡p-value <0.05 compared to HCV negative.