Table 5.

Association studies between the groups of patients with Acute (AF), Multifocal Chronic (MC), and Unifocal Chronic (UC) forms of PCM including sex, ethnicity, and the IL18-607 C/A SNP as covariates and results of p-values, Odds Ratio (OR), and 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI).

Covariates of IL18-607 C/A SNP	Comparisons
	AF vs. MCc			AF vs. UCd			MC vs. UCe
	p-value	OR	95% CI	p-value	OR	95% CI	p-value	OR	95% CI
Sexa	0.000	12.63	3.64–43.81	0.484	1.74	0.37–8.18	0.020	0.16	0.35–0.76
Ethnicityb	0.433	1.54	0.52–4.55	0.350	2.12	0.44–10.31	0.517	1.56	0.40–6.00
CC vs. CA vs. AA	0.546	1.25	0.60–2.62	0.070	3.06	0.91–10.27	0.164	1.89	0.77–4.65
Sexa	0.000	12.58	3.64–43.50	0.393	1.89	0.44–8.16	0.015	0.151	0.03–0.70
Ethnicityb	0.420	1.56	0.53–4.64	0.399	1.85	0.59–9.16	0.600	1.42	0.38–5.36
CC vs. CA + AA	0.755	1.13	0.48–2.63	0.769	2.58	0.78–8.5	0.724	2.29	0.80–6.58
Sexa	0.000	12.39	3.58–42.98	0.609	1.52	0.31–7.50	0.018	0.15	0.03–0.72
Ethnicityb	0.402	1.59	0.53–4.75	0.699	1.63	0.47–8.00	0.364	1.88	0.48–7.36
CC + CA vs. AA	0.569	1.38	0.63–3.11	Omitted			Omitted
Sexa	0.000	12.6	3.64–43.80	0.484	1.74	0.37–8.31	0.020	0.16	0.03–0.76
Ethnicityb	0.430	1.54	0.52–0.30	0.350	2.12	0.44–10.31	0.517	1.56	0.40–6.00
C vs. A	0.528	1.19	0.69–2.07	0.015	3.10	1.24–7.77	0.023	2.61	1.14–5.96

^aReference for sex = male.

^bReference for ethnicity = white.

^cReference for AF vs. MC = MC.

^dReference for AF vs. UC = UC.

^eReference for MC vs. UC = UC.