Application of Urinary Polyphenol Biomarkers Measured by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry to Assess Polyphenol Intake and Their Association with Overweight and Obesity in Free-Living Healthy Subjects

Table 3

Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) of each type of polyphenol biomarkers for overweight/obesity^a.

score	Multivariable^b
	OR (95% CI)
Hydroxycinnamic acids^c	0.291 (0.069~1.223)	0.092
Hydroxybenzoic acids^c	0.576 (0.225~1.473)	0.249
Flavonols^c	0.516 (0.149~1.792)	0.298
Favanones^c	0.461 (0.178~1.193)	0.110
Gut microbial metabolites^c	0.099 (0.019~0.510)	0.006

^aDefined according to the criteria of metabolic syndrome from Chinese Diabetes Society (CDS) (2004) for Chinese. ^bSet of independent variables: age, gender, FBG, UA, CREA, CRP, IsoP, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking and alcohol drinking status, high levels of physical activity, polyphenol-rich diet, and score of each type of polyphenol biomarkers as a continuous variable. ^cThe score of each type of polyphenol biomarkers was computed by the summary of the score of each polyphenol biomarker/numbers of biomarkers of each type.