Research Article
Coronary Artery Disease: A Study on the Joint Role of Birth Weight, Adenosine Deaminase, and Gender
Table 6
Birth weight in relation to ADA phenotype in healthy newborn and in subjects with CAD.
| | Healthy newborns | CAD | | ADA 1/1 | Carriers of ADA*2 allele | ADA 1/1 | Carriers of ADA*2 allele |
| Females | | | | | % proportion of newborns with a BW 3000 g | 26.5% | 22.4% | 54.3% | 76.9% | total no. | 310 | 58 | 46 | 13 | Males | | | | | % proportion of newborns with a BW 3000 g | 21.6% | 24.6% | 25.8% | 20.0% | total no. | 333 | 61 | 62 | 5 |
| Three-way contingency table analysis by a log-linear model | x ADA, y BW, and z gender | x y z interaction G df G df |
0,674 1 .4301.121 1 .320 | Independence of factor z from factors x and y 2.145 3 .38019.7323 .0002 |
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