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Table 2 Odds ratios of newly diagnosed diabetes based on SFA as a continuous or category variable

From: Abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue: a favorable adipose depot for diabetes?

 

No. of participants

No. of cases

Odds ratios (95% CI)a

Model 1b

Model 2c

Model 3d

Model 4e

Men

 SFA as categories

  Quartile 1

1348

129

1.00 (1.00–1.00)

1.00 (1.00–1.00)

1.00 (1.00–1.00)

1.00 (1.00–1.00)

  Quartile 2

1351

194

1.62 (1.28–2.05)

1.52 (1.19–1.94)

1.14 (0.89–1.48)

0.98 (0.76–1.27)

  Quartile 3

1350

225

1.94 (1.54–2.44)

1.75 (1.38–2.23)

1.10 (0.83–1.44)

0.90 (0.68–1.19)

  Quartile 4

1352

239

2.12 (1.69–2.68)

1.87 (1.48–2.38)

0.88 (0.64–1.22)

0.74 (0.54–1.03)

  P for trend

  

< 0.001

<0.001

0.261

0.042

 SFA as a continuous variable (1 SD increase)

  

1.35 (1.25–1.45)

1.29 (1.19–1.39)

0.99 (0.88–1.12)

0.96 (0.85–1.09)

Women

 SFA as categories

  Quartile 1

1683

227

1.00 (1.00–1.00)

1.00 (1.00–1.00)

1.00 (1.00–1.00)

1.00 (1.00–1.00)

  Quartile 2

1683

236

1.10 (0.90–1.34)

1.06 (0.87–1.30)

0.85 (0.69–1.04)

0.79 (0.64–0.98)

  Quartile 3

1686

244

1.15 (0.94–1.40)

1.07 (0.87–1.31)

0.73 (0.59–0.91)

0.70 (0.56–0.88)

  Quartile 4

1684

295

1.42 (1.17–1.71)

1.27 (1.05–1.55)

0.66 (0.52–0.84)

0.68 (0.53–0.87)

  P for trend

  

< 0.001

0.014

0.001

0.003

 SFA as a continuous variable (1 SD increase)

  

1.15 (1.08–1.23)

1.10 (1.03–1.18)

0.83 (0.76–0.91)

0.86 (0.78–0.94)

  1. aThe cut-off values of SFA quartiles are 92.6, 122.4, and 153.9 cm2 in men and 126.8, 161.2, and 201.2 cm2 in women. SFA subcutaneous fat area, and VFA visceral fat area
  2. bModel 1 adjusted for age
  3. cModel 2 adjusted for age, level of education, smoking habit, alcohol consumption, leisure-time physical activity, systolic blood pressure, and family history of diabetes
  4. dModel 3 adjusted for variables in Model 2 and also for body mass index
  5. eModel 4 adjusted for variables in Model 3 and also for VFA