Visceral Fat Accumulation Is Associated with Asthma in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Table 2

Univariate logistic regression analysis of the relationship between asthma (dependent variable) and other parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes.

	Asthma
	Odds ratio	95% CI	value
Age	0.95	0.85-1.06	ns
Gender (men)	2.02	0.73-5.51	ns
BMI	1.23	1.04-1.53	0.0126
Visceral fat accumulation	2.16	1.26-5.27	<0.0001
Waist circumference	1.11	1.03-1.18	0.0025
Duration of diabetes	1.04	0.91-1.16	ns
Hypertension	1.24	0.47-3.48	ns
Dyslipidemia	1.18	0.42-3.16	ns
Smoking	1.10	0.61-2.92	ns
Systolic blood pressure	1.04	0.99-1.09	ns
Diastolic blood pressure	1.03	0.97-1.10	ns
Heart rate	1.02	0.95-1.12	ns
Total cholesterol	1.01	0.99-1.04	ns
Triglyceride	1.02	1.00-1.04	0.0275
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol	0.87	0.82-0.97	0.0049
Fasting plasma glucose	1.06	1.01-1.10	0.0138
Fasting immunoreactive insulin	4.46	2.56-8.99	<0.0001
Homeostasis model assessment	5.98	2.18-14.8	<0.0001
Hemoglobin A1c	1.15	0.82-1.92	ns
C-reactive protein	1.12	0.87-2.15	ns
Uric acid	1.75	1.14-2.62	0.0075
Creatinine	3.10	0.18-19.8	ns

Sex (, ), hypertension (, ), and dyslipidemia (, ) were investigated as potential predictors of asthma. CI = confidence interval; BMI = body mass index.