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Table 4 Relative contribution of behavioral and clinical correlates to the variation of total bilirubin concentrations

From: Behavioral and clinical correlates of serum bilirubin concentrations in Japanese men and women

Variable (category or unit)

Contribution fraction (%)a

 

Men

Women

Fasting hour (< 4, 4–7 and ≥ 8 hours)

7.3

10.2

Time of blood drawing (< 12, 12–14 and ≥ 14 hours)

10.6

33.2

Season (winter/spring and summer/autumn)

2.3

1.5

Smoking (never, past, < 15, 15–29 and ≥ 30 cigarettes/day)

23.7

6.9

Alcohol intake (never, past, < 25, 25–49 and ≥ 50 g/day)

7.9

3.2

BMI (< 22.5, 22.5–24.9, 25.0–27.4 and ≥ 27.5 kg/m2)

1.2

1.6

Work-related activity (quartile of MET-hr/day)

0.9

0.6

Leisure-time activity (quartile of MET-hr/week)

0.3

1.1

Coffee (0, < 1, 1–3, 4–6 and ≥ 7 cups/day)

5.7

6.8

Tea (< 1, 1–3, 4–6, 7–9 and ≥ 10 cups/day)

0.8

0.1

Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)b

0.2

0.9

Antihypertensive drug (+/−)

0.7

0.0

HbA1c (%)b

1.0

3.1

Antidiabetic drug (+/−)

0.0

0.3

HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)b

2.5

10.1

Non-HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)b

2.9

0.2

Cholesterol-lowering drug (+/−)

2.1

0.6

  1. BMI, body mass index; HDL, high-density lipoprotein.
  2. aProportion of partial R 2 for a specific covariate to the overall R 2 in the multiple linear regression including age (year) and all of the listed covariates.
  3. bContinuous variables were used.