Table 4.

Correlation of serum ADA activity with baseline characteristics

		Total ADA activity		ADA1 activity		ADA2 activity
Correlation between		Controls	Cases	Controls	Cases	Controls	Cases
Age	r Value	0.198	0.148	−0.164	0.130	−0.129	0.156
	p Value	0.312	0.189	0.147	0.252	0.253	0.168
BMI	r Value	0.125	0.164	0.172	0.202	0.007	0.079
	p Value	0.271	0.145	0.127	0.072	0.953	0.489
WHR	r Value	0.008	−0.159	0.072	−0.088	−0.079	−0.033
	p Value	0.997	0.160	0.525	0.436	0.489	0.773
Ethnicity	r Value	0.119	0.055	0.159	0.014	0.038	0.003
	p Value	0.294	0.629	0.162	0.901	0.736	0.981
Residence	r Value	0.019	−0.017	0.112	0.037	−0.096	0.099
	p Value	0.870	0.879	0.323	0.743	0.399	0.396
Occupation	r Value	−0.003	0.066	−0.028	−0.108	0.023	0.110
	p Value	0.977	0.563	0.806	0.340	0.838	0.330
Dietary habits	r Value	0.125	0.044	0.255	0.005	0.074	0.053
	p Value	0.271	0.695	0.023	0.862	0.512	0.637
Smoking	r Value	0.027	0.219	0.140	0.119	−0.099	0.232
	p Value	0.813	0.104	0.216	0.292	0.384	0.039
Alcohol	r Value	0.068	0.227*	0.135	0.243*	−0.154	0.223*
	p Value	0.551	0.047	0.030	0.232	0.173	0.046
Duration of DM	r Value	NA	0.060	NA	0.091	NA	0.105
	p Value		0.499		0.421		0.352

*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two tailed).

ADA, adenosine deaminase; BMI, body mass index; DM, diabetes mellitus; WHR, waist-hip ratio.