Plasma Dephosphorylated-Uncarboxylated Matrix Gla-Protein in Systemic Sclerosis Patients: Biomarker Potential for Vascular Calcification and Inflammation.

Odds ratios for current smoking (OR 3.09; 95%CI 0.86–11.5), sex (OR 2.44; 95%CI 0.89–6.72), and hypertension (OR 2.53; 95%CI 0.86–7.46) tended to predict CVD, but the association did not reach statistical significance ( Table 3 ). 3.6. dp-ucMGP and Event-Free Survival in SSc Patients We next categorized the SSc patients as being above or below the median of dp-ucMGP plasma levels to perform a Kaplan–Meier analysis over the first 10 years after onset of SSc.

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