Table 4.

The results of the two-piecewise linear model.

	N (%)	OR (95% CI)	P value
Fitting model by standard linear regression	523(100%)	2.08 (1.32, 3.27)	0.002
Fitting model by two-piecewise linear regression
The inflection point of TG/HDL-c ratio
≤2.05	421 (80.5%)	3.17 (1.54, 6.57)	0.001
>2.05	102 (19.5%)	1.00 (0.80, 1.26)	0.983
P for the log-likelihood ratio test	0.017

Abbreviations: CI: confidence interval; OR: odds ratio. Adjusted for gender, age, BMI, hypertension, smoking, atherosclerosis, WBC, PLT, Hb, ALT, AST, Cr, UA, and TnT.