The Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Circulating Ischaemia-Modified Albumin Concentrations

Table 2

Independent predictors of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in multivariate logistic regression analysis.

	OR	95% CI	value
Age	1.0	0.96–1.06	0.65
Sex	0.9	0.52–1.73	0.79
Smoking	0.8	0.31–2.12	0.68
BMI > 25 (kg/m^2)	1.0	0.88–1.15	0.85
Hypertension	1.7	0.45–6.86	0.41
IMA positive group	10.8	3.66–32.07	<0.001

OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; BMI: body mass index; IMA: ischaemia-modified albumin; patients with IMAs >0.467 were assumed to be IMA-positive and all others were IMA-negative.