Among the 5 POP subclasses, only the OC pesticides showed a positive trend with CRP concentrations ( Table 2 ); this association was attenuated to non-significance after additional adjustment for waist circumference and BMI.
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Interaction Between Persistent Organic Pollutants and C-reactive Protein in Estimating Insulin Resistance Among Non-diabetic Adults.
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In addition, it is worthwhile to note that this kind of interaction was very similar to the patterns between POPs and obesity for the risk of type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance, which had been reported in our previous studies, although p -values for interactions of our previous studies had failed to reach statistical significance [ 1 , 2 ].