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Published in final edited form as: J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2012 Oct 22;3(1):4–11. doi: 10.1016/j.jceh.2012.10.004

Table 3.

The hazards associated with one log increment in serum gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase and all-cause, cardiovascular and liver-related mortality in older adults

	N	LN GGT HR (95% CI)	P VALUE
All-cause Mortality
Age-sex adjusted	2364	1.28 (1.18–1.40)	<.0001
Multivariate^#-adjusted	1790	1.21 (1.09–1.34)	.0004
CVD Mortality
Age-sex adjusted	2364	1.34 (1.19–1.51)	<.0001
Multivariate-IL-6 adjusted	1790	1.28 (1.10–1.49)	.0017
Liver Disease Mortality
Age-sex adjusted	2364	2.41 (1.61–3.59)	<.0001
Multivariate^#-adjusted	1790	2.52 (1.52–4.17)	.0003

LN; natural log transformed, HR; hazards ratio, CI; confidence interval

Multivariate-model includes age-sex-alcohol-BMI-Total cholesterol-HDL cholesterol-serum triglyceride-smoking-systolic blood pressure-diabetes mellitus, IL-6 and CRP.

A two-tailed p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant