Independent relationships of retinol binding protein 4 concentrations with endothelial activation and atherosclerosis.

Retinol binding protein 4-endothelial activation and retinol binding protein 4-atherosclerosis relations were assessed in mixed regression models with adjustment for the log Framingham score (calculated from age, sex and major conventional risk factors), race, alcohol use, waist-hip ratio, glomerular filtration rate, and systemic inflammation (C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 concentrations). Significant association is shown in bold type.VCAM = vascular cell adhesion molecule, ICAM = intercellular adhesion molecule, OR = odds ratio, CI = confidence interval.*Characteristics that were non-normally distributed and were logarithmically transformed prior to entering them in linear regression models.