Research Article

Adipocytokine Associations with Insulin Resistance in British South Asians

Table 3

Conditional logistic regression of adipokine biomarkers with insulin resistance.

Wald statisticBeta coefficient (95% CI)P

Model 1
 Adiponectin0.2912.41 0.91 (0.85, 0.95) <0.01
 Leptin0.23 0.09 0.99 (0.97, 1.01) 0.78
 TNF-α0.22 0.09 1.03 (0.85, 1.23) 0.03
Model 2
 Adiponectin0.2813.13 0.89 (0.85, 0.95) <0.01
 Leptin0.21 1.69 1.01 (0.99, 1.01) 0.20
 TNF-α0.20 0.07 1.00 (1.01, 1.12) 0.93

HOMA-IR > 3.0 used to define insulin resistance for categorical dependent variable.
Model 1: age, gender, BMI, smoking, Cardioprotective medication.
Model 2: age, gender, waist circumference, smoking, total cholesterol.