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Table 3 Associations with high Gal3BP for all, women and men

From: Female sex, high soluble CD163, and low HDL-cholesterol were associated with high galectin-3 binding protein in type 1 diabetes

Variables

High galectin-3BP (≥3.3 mg/l, ≥80th percentile)

All patients

Women

Men

COR

p value

AOR

p valuea

AOR

p valueb

AOR

p valuec

Sex (women)

2.7 (1.5–4.9)

0.001

3.0 (1.5–5.9)

0.001

–

–

–

–

Age

0.99 (0.97–1.02)

0.43

1.02 (0.99–1.05)

0.22

0.98 (0.94–1.02)

0.27

1.03 (0.98–1.08)

0.30

Diabetes duration

0.98 (0.95–1.00)

0.076

0.98 (0.95–1.00)

0.11

–

–

0.96 (0.92–1.01)

0.14

sCD163 (mg/l)

5.4 (1.6–18.0)

0.005

6.6 (1.9–23.2)

0.003

4.6 (0.8–26.9)

0.093

11.2 (2.0–64.5))

0.007

Galectin-3 (μg/l)

1.04 (0.99–1.10)

0.14

–

–

–

–

–

–

HbA1c mmol/mol

1.03 (1.01–1.05)

0.008

1.02 (1.00–1.04)

0.09

1.03 (1.00–1.06)

0.039

–

–

TC (mmol/l)

1.4 (1.0–1.8)

0.022

1.6 (1.1–2.2)

0.007

–

–

2.3 (1.3–3.9)

0.003

Triglycerides (mmol/l)

1.5 (1.1–2.1)

0.014

0.9 (0.5–1.5)

0.58

–

–

0.7 (0.4–1.5)

0.41

LDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)

1.5 (1.1–2.2)

0.017

0.6 (0.1–3.5)

0.53

1.1 (0.6–1.8)

0.76

0.4 (0.03–6.6)

0.56

HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)

0.45 (0.2–1.0)

0.059

0.2 (0.1–0.7)

0.010

–

–

0.2 (0.02–0.9)

0.040

Creatinine

0.99 (0.97–1.01)

0.16

–

–

–

–

–

–

Abdominal obesity

1.1 (0.5–2.4)

0.77

–

–

–

–

–

–

General obesity

3.4 (1.6–7.2)

0.002

1.6 (0.7–4.0)

0.29

–

–

7.9 (1.9–32.6)

0.004

SBP

0.99 (0.96–1.01)

0.26

–

–

–

–

–

–

DBP

1.00 (0.96–1.04)

0.83

–

–

–

–

–

–

Smoking

1.2 (0.5–3.1)

0.74

–

–

–

–

–

–

Physical inactivity

2.3 (1.0–5.2)

0.053

1.8 (0.7–4.8)

0.22

–

–

–

–

Depression

0.6 (0.2–1.3)

0.19

–

–

–

–

–

–

CV complications

2.7 (0.7–9.8)

0.14

–

–

4.0 (0.3–47.3)

0.26

–

–

Diabetes retinopathy

1.0 (0.5–2.0)

0.93

–

–

–

–

–

–

Foot complications

1.3 (0.6–2.7)

0.54

–

–

–

–

–

–

AD

1.8 (0.7–4.5)

0.24

–

–

2.6 (0.7–9.4)

0.15

–

–

AHD

0.9 (0.5–1.7)

0.79

–

–

–

–

–

–

LLD

1.2 (0.7–2.2)

0.47

–

–

–

–

–

–

  1. a, b, c Logistic regression analyses (Backward: Wald): variables with p values ≤0.10 for the CORs and age were included in the analyses; N = a 267/b 123/c 160; Nagelkerke R2: a 0.206/ b 0.089/c 0.298; Hosmer-Lemeshow test: a 0.991/b 0.142/c 0.821