This is in agreement with our findings, which should be confirmed in further studies because the association between smoking and LBP was of borderline significance and only evident after adjusting for confounders.
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Determinants of serum concentrations of lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) in the adult population: the role of obesity.
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Furthermore, there was a significant trend towards increased LBP concentrations with increasing categories of BMI ( Figure 3 ).The linear relationship between body mass index and LBP was still present after adjusting for additional confounders such as gender, alcohol consumption and smoking ( Table 2 ).