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Table 4 Nominal logistic regression analysis to examine whether thiol metabolites and genes, along with related micronutrient variables, predict hypertensive phenotype. Data show the effect Wald test p (r2 and slope estimate)

From: Hydrogen sulphide-related thiol metabolism and nutrigenetics in relation to hypertension in an elderly population

Variable

All subjects

Males

Females

Homocysteine

0.0604

0.4383

0.0877

Cysteine

0.0866

0.9296

0.0239 (r 2 = 0.0454, 0.0177)

Glutathione

0.2126

0.0944

0.9641

Dietary natural folate

0.8583

0.5532

0.6287

Dietary synthetic folate

0.2887

0.2558

0.0249 (r 2 = 0.0847, 0.0090)

Dietary vitamin B12

0.2370

0.6567

0.1759

Dietary vitamin B6

0.1816

0.9276

0.0371 (r 2 = 0.0408, 0.3835)

CTH-G1364T

0.4408

0.3499

0.0178 (r 2 = 0.0757)

CBS-844ins68

0.8046

0.7252

0.9851