Association of Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress Markers with Metabolic Syndrome in Asian Indians in India

Table 5

(a) Discriminant analysis results

	Structure matrix
	Function	Contribution (%)
	1
Ln_oxLDL	.746	37.99
Ln_HsCRP	.639	27.87
Ln_Neopterin	.522	18.59
Ln_sPLA2	.411	11.53
Ln_Interleukin6	.242	3.99

(b) Threshold levels for the biomarkers obtained using Discriminant score

oxLDL	39922.68 mU/L
hsCRP	4.00 μg/ml
Neopterin	7.0596 nmol/L

63.4% of cases were correctly classified using discriminant analysis.

(c) Mean levels of biomarkers for discriminant groups

Variables	Discriminant group; (see Table 5(d))	Mean ± S.E; (retransformed mean)	𝑃-value for group differences
hsCRP (μg/ml)	1	−0.066±0.080(0.9361)	<.0001**
	2	1.240±0.102(3.4556)
	3	0.393±0.128(1.4814)	<.0001**
	4	1.219±0.092(3.3838)
OxLDL (mU/L)	1	10.623±0.022(41068.6362)	<.0001**
	2	11.005±0.028(60174.2621)
	3	10.682±0.036(43564.5924)	<.0001**
	4	11.106±0.026(66569.3806)
Neopterin (nmol/L)	1	1.766±0.035(5.8474)	<.0001**
	2	2.231±0.045(9.3091)
	3	1.896±0.056(6.6592)	<.0001**
	4	2.223±0.040(9.2349)

(d) Discriminant groups

Actual group	Predicted group	Discriminant group
Unaffected	Unaffected	1
Unaffected	Affected	2
Affected	Unaffected	3
Affected	Affected	4