Table 2:

Shorter PBL-TL is a risk factor for ILD in UCSF SSc patients in a multivariable logistic regression model

	OR	95%CI	P-value
Age	0.99	0.97–1.02	0.60
Male gender	0.42	0.12–1.21	0.12
BMI	1.05	0.98–1.13	0.19
Hispanic ethnicity	1.97	0.73–5.78	0.20
Smoking history	1.16	0.80–1.68	0.43
Anti-topoisomerase antibody	4.61	2.05–11.23	<0.001
SSc subtype, diffuse	1.49	0.74–3.08	0.27
TL (per 1kb decrease)	2.11	1.25–3.70	0.006

PBL, peripheral blood leukocyte; TL, telomere length; ILD: interstitial lung disease; UCSF, University of California San Francisco; SSc, systemic sclerosis; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; BMI, body mass index.