Table 3.

Pairwise associations between leukocyte telomere length (LTL) and socio-demographic, health behavior, comorbidity, and biomarker characteristics, among the 356 participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities Study, based on Spearman's rank correlation.

	Visit 4					Visit 2
		White		African American			White		African American
	All	Female	Male	Female	Male	All	Female	Male	Female	Male
Total, n (row %)	356 (100)	97 (27)	90 (25)	85 (24)	84 (24)	350 (100)	96 (27)	88 (25)	83 (24)	83 (24)
Race (ref: white)	0.247**					0.138**
Sex (ref: female)	0.062					−0.137*
Age	−0.183**	−0.168	−0.210*	−0.150	−0.093	− 0.161**	−0.128	− 0.246*	−0.014	−0.204
Periodontitis	−0.050	− 0.251*	0.157	−0.009	−0.093	−0.062	− 0.231*	0.141	−0.086	−0.034
Education (ref: basic)	−0.033	0.054	−0.019	0.055	−0.007	0.047	0.024	0.014	0.050	0.217*
Income	−0.029	0.096	0.171	0.097	0.033	0.097	0.204	0.203	0.112	0.273*
Smoking status (0: never, 1: former, 2: current)	−0.006	−0.074	0.011	−0.054	0.111	−0.012	−0.068	−0.006	0.005	0.150
Alcohol drinking status (0: never, 1: former, 2: current)	− 0.136*	−0.116	0.106	0.135	− 0.284**	−0.094	−0.152	0.203	0.014	−0.100
Body Mass Index (kg/m2)	−0.009	− 0.222*	0.154	−0.039	0.032	0.029	−0.038	0.081	−0.083	0.012
Diabetes mellitus	−0.027	−0.056	0.034	− 0.242*	0.042	0.11	−0.043	0.043	−0.055	0.010
Hypertension	−0.017	− 0.200*	0.075	−0.145	−0.008	0.010	0.127	0.004	−0.114	0.012
GCF- IL1B	−0.108	−0.066	0.083	−0.045	−0.085	−0.078	−0.182	−0.014	0.030	0.052
GCF- PGE2	0.067	0.303**	0.093	0.100	0.005	−0.011	0.027	0.002	0.092	−0.045
CRP	0.141*	0.068	−0.029	0.071	0.159	0.116	−0.029	−0.020	0.080	0.033
Number of remaining teeth	−0.022	0.027	0.176	0.069	0.112	−0.048	−0.110	0.094	−0.034	0.061

^*Denotes p<0.05

^**denotes p<0.01