Circulating Visfatin in Hypothyroidism Is Associated with Free Thyroid Hormones and Antithyroperoxidase Antibodies

Table 2

Simple linear regression analysis using visfatin serum concentration as dependent variable.

Variable	Visfatin serum concentration (log)
	β
Age	−0.001	0.3325
Sex	−0.0229	0.564
BMI (log)	−0.3624	0.059
TSH (log)	−0.0046	0.784
FT4 (log)	0.05412	0.048
FT3 (log)	0.05242	0.038
TPOAb	0.0002	0.0025
TgAb	0.00001	0.515
Fasting glucose	0.0009	0.489
Fasting insulin	−0.0026	0.518
HOMA-IR (log)	−0.0006	0.720
Autoimmunity (yes/no)	0.1014	0.0003

TPOAb antithyroperoxidase antibodies; TgAb antithyroglobulin antibodies.