Associations between albumin, globulin, albumin to globulin ratio and muscle mass in adults: results from the national health and nutrition examination survey 2011–2014

Table 2 Relationship between albumin and ASMI

Outcome	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Outcome	β (95%CI)	P-value	β (95%CI)	P-value	β (95%CI)	P-value
Albumin	0.238 (0.213, 0.262)	< 0.001	0.070 (0.051, 0.090)	< 0.001	0.023 (0.004, 0.042)	0.031
Stratified by gender
Man	0.100 (0.077, 0.123)	< 0.001	0.074 (0.047, 0.010)	< 0.001	0.038 (0.012, 0.064)	0.010
Woman	0.058 (0.033, 0.082)	< 0.001	0.063 (0.036, 0.089)	< 0.001	-0.020 (-0.037, -0.002)	0.046
Stratified by MM
NMM	0.232 (0.210, 0.255)	< 0.001	0.057 (0.036, 0.078)	< 0.001	0.023 (0.003, 0.043)	0.039
LMM	0.093 (0.010, 0.176)	0.037	0.003 (-0.025, 0.030)	0.844	-0.005 (-0.056, 0.047)	0.847

ASMI Appendicular skeletal muscle index, MM Muscle mass, NMM Normal muscle mass, LMM Low muscle mass
Model 1: no covariates were adjusted
Model 2: gender, age and race were adjusted
Model 3: gender, age, race, BMI, hypertension, diabetes, white blood cell count, hemoglobin, total calcium, phosphorus, uric acid, total cholesterol, triglycerides and 25[OH]D were adjusted

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