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Table 4 Association between the APOE ε4 allele and GWI diagnosis in the presence of known GW chemicals

From: Genetic association between the APOE ε4 allele, toxicant exposures and Gulf war illness diagnosis

 

OR [95% CI]

Age

0.95 [0.91–0.99]*

PB x Pesticides

4.10 [2.12–7.91]**

PB x chemical alarm

3.30 [1.56–6.97]**

Oil well x ε4 + carriers

2.46 [1.10–5.66]*

  1. Note: *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01; This is a stepwise forward LR model (displaying last final step selected). In addition to the variables in Table 2, GW exposure variables included reporting of exposure to oil well fires, hearing chemical alarms, scud missiles explosions, CARC paint, pesticide, PB intake, interaction between PB and pesticide exposure, and interaction between GW exposures and ε4. Also, since we had exposure data available for the limited dataset, analyses were restricted to 85 controls and 161 GWI subjects.
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