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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2022;90(2):667–680. doi: 10.3233/JAD-220349

Table 4.

Associations between SMs and neuroinflammation biomarkers.

sTREM2 (ng/mL) IL6 (pg/mL) YKL40 (ng/mL)
Metabolite β P R2 β P R2 β P R2
behenoyl SM (d18:1/22:0) 0.47 0.03 0.11 −0.02 0.48 0.03 6.87 0.05 0.31
palmitoyl dihydro-SM (d18:0/16:0) 1.64 5.15E-05 0.12 0.02 0.75 0.03 19.80 3.67E-03 0.32
palmitoyl SM (d18:1/16:0) 4.55 1.06E-16 0.17 −0.10 0.12 0.03 63.27 2.92E-11 0.35
SM (d18:1/14:0, d16:1/16:0) 1.91 6.67E-07 0.12 −0.07 0.18 0.03 27.02 5.14E-05 0.33
SM (d18:1/18:1, d18:2/18:0) 4.30 2.70E-14 0.17 −0.17 7.56E-03 0.04 59.56 2.40E-09 0.35
SM (d18:1/20:0, d16:1/22:0) 1.48 7.69E-06 0.12 −0.06 0.22 0.03 15.09 0.01 0.32
SM (d18:1/20:1, d18:2/20:0) 0.88 0.01 0.12 −0.01 0.78 0.02 13.51 0.03 0.33
SM (d18:1/22:1, d18:2/22:0, d16:1/24:1) 1.03 9.70E-05 0.11 −0.03 0.40 0.03 9.82 0.03 0.32
SM (d18:1/24:1, d18:2/24:0) 0.92 7.96E-04 0.12 −0.03 0.44 0.03 5.99 0.19 0.32
SM (d18:2/16:0, d18:1/16:1) 2.26 1.12E-08 0.13 −0.14 8.31E-03 0.04 31.62 3.08E-06 0.33
SM (d18:2/24:1, d18:1/24:2) 1.28 1.27E-05 0.12 −0.05 0.23 0.03 11.71 0.02 0.32
stearoyl SM (d18:1/18:0) 6.99 3.15E-28 0.24 −0.18 5.77E-03 0.04 105.64 1.41E-18 0.39

sTREM2: soluble triggering receptor found on myeloid cells 2; IL6: interleukin-6; YKL40: chitinase-3-like protein 1; β: change in the outcome with a one unit increase of the standardized metabolite level; P: P-value of the corresponding regression; R2: marginal R2 for the corresponding regression; bolded values indicate significant results at threshold p<3.47×10−4.