Table 2.

Multivariate linear regression analysis between plasma nesfatin-1 (dependent variable) and clinical characteristics (independent variables)

	β (95%confidence interval)	SE	P value
Age	−0.120 (− 0.238 to − 0.002)	0.059	0.047
Gender	0.459 (−1.981 to 2.900)	1.228	0.709
Duration of depression	0.507 (0.301 to 0.752)	0.114	< 0.001
BMI	0.174 (−0.226 to 0.574)	0.201	0.389
HAMD-17 score	0.715 (0.550 to 0880)	0.083	< 0.001
FBG	−0.886 (−1.842 to 0.070)	0.481	0.069
TG	0.583 (−0.309 to1.476)	0.449	0.198
TC	0.965 (−0.262 to 2.192)	0.617	0.122
HDL-C	1.957 (−0.454 to 4.368)	1.213	0.110
LDL-C	−1.336 (−3.097 to 0.425)	0.886	0.135
TSH	2.173 (0.718 to3.629)	0.732	0.004
FT3	−0.718 (−2.677 to 1.242)	0.986	0.469
FT4	−0.360 (−1.095 to 0.374)	0.370	0.332