Systemic Factors Related to Intraocular Levels of Interleukin-6 and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Diabetic Retinopathy

Table 2

Correlation of the intraocular IL-6 level with systemic factors.

	Simple Linear regression		Multiple linear regression
	Regression coefficient	value	value
Gender	0.002	0.786
Age	0.008	0.560	0.225
Duration of diabetes	0.021	0.357	0.512
History of laser photocoagulation	0.016	0.448
Body mass index	0.002	0.759	0.436
Systolic BP	0.002	0.751
Diastolic BP	0.022	0.343
Hypertension	0.008	0.580
Alcohol consumption	0.001	0.826
Smoking status	0.135	0.017	0.002
Insulin	0.027	0.295
HbA1C	0.076	0.077
Fasting glucose	0.077	0.076
HOMA-IR	0.456	0.002	0.002
HOMA-beta	0.008	0.574
C-peptide	0.027	0.296
Total cholesterol	0.016	0.430
Triglycerides	0.055	0.134
HDL cholesterol	0.017	0.410
LDL cholesterol	0.023	0.337
Apolipoprotein-A	0.001	0.886
Apolipoprotein-B	0.001	0.830
Lipoprotein A	0.002	0.806

BP, blood pressure; HbA1c, glycated hemoglobin; HOMA-IR, homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance; HOMA-beta, homeostasis model assessment-beta; BUN, blood urea nitrogen; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein.