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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2015 Mar 23;218(4):407–413. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2015.03.006

Table 3.

Percent Change in HOMA2-IR Associated with one Interquartile Range Increase or Quartiles of Arsenic Species

Percent Change in HOMA2-IR (%) (95% CI)
Per Interquartile Range Increase Quartilea P-trendc
1 2 3 4
Total Arsenic
    Model 1b −0.22 (−1.5, 1.1) Ref 2.2 (−9.1, 15) −5.4 (−17, 7.5) −4.6 (−17, 9.0) 0.31
    Model 2 0.35 (−0.65, 1.4) Ref 1.1 (−8.0, 11) −0.89 (−10, 9.7) −0.047 (−10, 11) 0.91
    Model 3 1.5 (−2.0, 5.2) Ref 1.0 (−8.0, 11) −0.99 (−11, 9.6) −0.69 (−11, 11) 0.81
Inorganic Arsenic d
    Model 1 −0.59 (−3.4, 2.3) Ref 13 (0.44, 27) 4.7 (−7.8, 19) 7.3 (−6.8, 23) 0.62
    Model 2 1.1 (−1.1, 3.4) Ref 9.0 (−0.67, 20) 6.1 (−4.1, 17) 9.6 (−1.9, 23) 0.19
    Model 3 1.1 (−1.5, 3.8) Ref 9.0 (−0.70, 20) 6.0 (−4.1, 17) 9.3 (−2.4, 22) 0.22
DMA
    Model 1 −1.3 (−4.3, 1.8) Ref 9.9 (−2.6, 24) 6.9 (−5.8, 21) 2.6 (−11, 18) 0.95
    Model 2 0.40 (−2.0, 2.9) Ref 6.3 (−3.3, 17) 5.4 (−4.7, 16) 4.2 (−6.5, 16) 0.59
    Model 3 0.25 (−2.3, 2.9) Ref 6.3 (−3.4, 17) 5.2 (−4.8, 16) 3.9 (−7.0, 16) 0.64
a

Total arsenic Quartile 1-4: <=4.11 μg/L, 4.13-6.99 μg/L, 7.01-12.80 μg/L, >=12.86 μg/L Inorganic arsenic Quartile 1-4: <=3.36 μg/L, 3.40-5.90 μg/L, 5.90-9.89 μg/L, >=9.90 μg/L DMA Quartile 1-4: <=2.15μg/L, 2.17-3.75 μg/L, 3.77-5.52 μg/L, >=5.58 μg/L

b

Model1: Adjusted for urinary creatinine, age, sex, race/ethnicity, PIR and serum cotinine Model2: Model1+ BMI (penalized spline) and waist circumference Model3: Model2+ urinary arsenobetaine

c

Based on the model where quartiles of total arsenic, inorganic arsenic or DMA are fitted as ordinal variables.

d

Inorganic arsenic=total arsenic-arsenobetaine