Elevated Levels of Plasma IgA Autoantibodies against Oxidized LDL Found in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy but Not in Nonproliferative Retinopathy

Table 4

Multiple linear regression for autoantibody levels. The variables included in the model were sex, age, BMI, diabetes duration and type, gHbA1c, LDL, and medications. Negative values indicate inverse effect and for sex, female sex has decreasing effect.

Variable		95% confidence interval
MDAOx-IgG
Constant			0.005
Oral diabetes medication		to	<0.001
Diabetes type		1590.1 to 5658.0	0.001
Statin medication		to	0.013
MDAOx-IgM
Constant			<0.001
Sex		to	0.033
LDL		314.5 to 1524.4	0.003
Oral diabetes medication		to	0.004
MDAOx-IgA
Constant			<0.001
Age		0.37 to 1.32	0.001
gHbA1c		0.44 to 6.87	0.026
ASA		8.20 to 35.62	0.003
LDL		0.91 to 15.25	0.027