Relationship between Toxoplasma gondii seropositivity and schizophrenia in the Lebanese population: potential implication of genetic polymorphism of MMP-9

Table 3 Multivariate analysis taking the schizophrenia/control as a dependent variable

	OR	95% Confidence Interval		p-value
	OR	Lower	Upper	p-value
Marital status (married vs single^a)	0.047	0.02	0.10	< 0.001
Smoking	2.70	1.24	5.88	0.012
IgG+/IgM+	34.55	4.01	297.09	0.001
Presence of a cat at home (Yes vs No^a)	7.13	2.40	21.17	< 0.001
Water drinking (Gallon vs tap^a)	0.34	0.14	0.83	0.018

Variable entered: Marital status, presence of a cat at home, contact with a cat at home, water drinking, smoking, IgG/IgM+, IgG+/IgM-, interaction between IgG/IgM+ and IgG+/IgM-
Hosmer and Lemeshow test was not significant (p = 0.894)
Nagelkerke R2 = 0.731 suggests that 73.1% of schizophrenic patients were explained by the independent variables included
^aReference group; numbers in bold indicate significant p-values

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