First Age- and Gender-Matched Case-Control Study in Australia Examining the Possible Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Busselton Health Study

Table 3

Duration of diabetes in T2DM subjects with and without T. gondii infection as determined by IgG serology. Average age of T2DM and control subjects with and without T. gondii infection as determined by IgG serology. BHS, Western Australia.

	Toxoplasma IgG serology in T2DM subjects		value
	POS ()	NEG ()
Duration of T2DM (years)			0.044
Age of subjects (years)			<0.001
	Toxoplasma IgG serology in control subjects
	POS ()	NEG ()
Age of subjects (years)			0.019

Values are shown as . POS: number of subjects in which anti-IgG antibodies were detected; NEG: number of subjects in which anti-IgG antibodies were not detected.