Mercury, Autoimmunity, and Environmental Factors on Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Lands
Table 5
(a) Model (Poisson regression) for the number of detected specific autoantibodies using INOVA assays. (b) Model (Poisson regression) for number of detected specific denatured DNA and histone autoantibodies from in-house assays.
(a)
Factor of change
95% CI
value
Intercept
0.0
0.00–0.18
0.0012
Gender*
6.5
1.69–24.78
0.0064
Age
1.0
1.01–1.04
0.012
Fish score
1.6
1.13–2.16
0.0073
Smoking score
1.9
0.60–5.77
0.29
Gender: smoking score
0.5
0.25–1.01
0.053
values less than or equal to 0.05 are italicized. *Male gender was used as the reference, thus, the factor of change reflects the effect of being female.