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Postoperative plasma concentration of CRP was associated with postoperative delirium incidence [adjusted odds ratio (OR) per one standard deviation change in CRP: 1.51; 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.05, 2.16;<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= 0.026], and severity [in which each one standard deviation increase in postoperative CRP was associated with a 0.47 point (95% CI: 0.18\u20130.76) increase in the severity of delirium,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= 0.002] after adjusting age, sex, preoperative Mini-Mental State Examination score and the days when postoperative CRP was measured. A statistically significant interaction (adjusted<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= 0.044) was also observed, in which the association between postoperative plasma concentration of CRP and postoperative delirium incidence was stronger in the participants with lower preoperative plasma concentrations of homocysteine compared to those with higher preoperative levels.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Pending validation studies, these data suggest that preoperative plasma concentration of homocysteine modifies the established association between postoperative plasma concentration of CRP and postoperative delirium incidence.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnagi.2022.963421","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,21]],"date-time":"2022-09-21T04:37:38Z","timestamp":1663735058000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Preoperative homocysteine modifies the association between postoperative C-reactive protein and postoperative delirium"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Xin","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xinchun","family":"Mei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tianyi","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Meijuan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoyi","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hailin","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kathryn","family":"Cody","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lize","family":"Xiong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Edward R.","family":"Marcantonio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhongcong","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuan","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"326","DOI":"10.1093\/ageing\/afp014","article-title":"Cytokines and Igf-I in delirious and non-delirious acutely ill older medical inpatients.","volume":"38","author":"Adamis","year":"2009","journal-title":"Age Ageing"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"843","DOI":"10.1111\/jgs.13406","article-title":"The American Geriatrics Society\/National Institute on Aging Bedside-to-Bench Conference: Research Agenda on Delirium in Older Adults.","volume":"63","year":"2015","journal-title":"J. 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