Research Article
Sexual Dimorphisms of Adrenal Steroids, Sex Hormones, and Immunological Biomarkers and Possible Risk Factors for Developing Rheumatoid Arthritis
Table 8
(a) Control subjects (
) pattern matrix. (b) Pre-RA subjects (
) pattern matrix.
(a) |
| Variables in model (variance extracted = 72.7%) | Principal components extracted | | 2 | 3 | 4 | (AA steroids) | (Receptors) | (IL-1β/ra) | (Cortisol) |
| Age at entry | −.556 | .198 | .250 | .190 | dhea_silW_new | .870 | −.006 | −.010 | .209 | adione_slW_new | .871 | .048 | −.050 | .225 | test_silW_new | .767 | .079 | .162 | −.137 | il_2_alplW_new | −.026 | .822 | .073 | .107 | stnf_r1lW_new | .042 | .865 | −.157 | −.118 | il_1_betlW_new | −.109 | −.060 | −.881 | .185 | il_1ralW_new | .131 | .183 | −.722 | −.201 | cort_silW_new | .115 | .003 | −.043 | .934 |
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Rotation method: Oblimin with Kaiser normalization, in 5 iterations. Androgenic anabolic (AA) steroids are first extracted and inverse with age.
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(b) |
| Variables in model (variance extracted = 62.3%) | Principal components extracted | | 2 | 3 | (AA steroids) | (Receptors) | (Cortisol) |
| Age at entry | −0.596 | −0.266 | 0.128 | dhea_silW_new | 0.809 | −0.250 | 0.188 | adione_slW_new | 0.851 | −0.137 | 0.020 | test_silW_new | 0.623 | 0.025 | −0.380 | il_2_alplW_new | −0.108 | 0.816 | −0.043 | stnf_r1lW_new | 0.082 | 0.822 | 0.279 | il_1_betlW_new | 0.688 | 0.209 | −0.065 | il_1ralW_new | 0.006 | 0.205 | 0.905 | cort_silW_new | 0.504 | −0.150 | 0.213 |
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Rotation method: Oblimin with Kaiser normalization, in 6 iterations. IL-1β and cortisol are first extracted with the AA steroids.
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