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Original Articles

Soluble ST2, a biomarker of fibrosis, is associated with multiple risk factors, chronic diseases and total mortality in the OPERA study

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Pages 324-331 | Received 07 Jan 2021, Accepted 14 Mar 2021, Published online: 01 Apr 2021

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Figure 1. OPERA – Oulu Project Elucidating Risk of Atherosclerosis study outline.

Figure 1. OPERA – Oulu Project Elucidating Risk of Atherosclerosis study outline.

Table 1. Main characteristics of the baseline and follow-up study population.

Table 2. Baseline classical and metabolic risk predictors of follow-up plasma ST2 levels in univariate and multivariate regression models.

Table 3. Association of classical and metabolic risk factors with plasma ST2 levels at follow-up examination, in univariate and multivariate regression models.

Figure 2. The association of follow-up glucose tolerance groups with plasma levels of sST2.

Figure 2. The association of follow-up glucose tolerance groups with plasma levels of sST2.

Table 4. Association of plasma sST2 (log-transformed) levels with follow-up diseases in multivariate model.

Figure 3. sST2 tertile groups and the risk of death.

Figure 3. sST2 tertile groups and the risk of death.