After additional adjustment for waist circumference, the associations for protein-bound CML and pentosidine were attenuated and became non-significant, while the association for protein-bound CEL remained significant (Table 2, model 3, protein-bound CML, β = −0.08 [−0.17, 0.01]; protein-bound pentosidine, β = −0.05 [−0.14, 0.04]; protein-bound CEL, β = −0.17 [−0.25, −0.08]). This evidence concerns the gene CEL and chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR-ABL1 positive.