Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist and Interleukin-4 Genes Variable Number Tandem Repeats Are Associated with Adiposity in Malaysian Subjects

Table 4

Adjusted means of overall population’s anthropometric measurements and blood pressures for different IL1RA and IL4 VNTR alleles.

Variables	IL1RA		IL4
	I	II	B1	B2
WC	77.16 ± 0.48	81.98 ± 3.06	79.59 ± 1.59	79.55 ± 2.64
p	0.09		0.99
BMI	21.83 ± 0.18	23.26 ± 1.12	22.54 ± 0.58	22.55 ± 0.97
p	0.14		0.95
TBF	23.51 ± 0.40	31.79 ± 2.52	26.09 ± 1.31	29.21 ± 2.18
p	0.005		0.34
SBP	113.26 ± 0.68	108.95 ± 4.32	114.65 ± 2.24	107.56 ± 3.73
p	0.19		0.06
DBP	68.81 ± 0.41	68.66 ± 2.60	68.22 ± 1.35	69.25 ± 2.25
p	0.68		0.37

WHR: waist-to-hip ratio; BMI: body mass index; TBF: total body fat; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; all values were log-transformed before analysis by univariate analysis of variance (General Linear Model), adjusted for covariate ethnicity; values are presented as adjusted mean ± SEM (estimated marginal means ± standard error of the mean); valuesignificant at < 0.05.