Establishing baseline criteria of cardio-ankle vascular index as a new indicator of arteriosclerosis: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Comparison of average CAVI scores between CVD risk-free group and CVD high-risk groups for males

Age	20-29	30-39	40-49	50-59	60-69	70-75
CVD risk-free group
Mean	6.69	7.12	7.59	8.06	8.73	9.35
SD	0.70	0.68	0.70	0.76	0.81	1.00
Hypertension group
Mean	-	7.43	7.86	8.47	9.12	9.84
SD		0.86	0.87	1.01	1.12	1.15
t-value		4.24	4.75	6.51	4.06	2.07
p-value		p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.041
Hypercholesterolemia & Hypertriglyceridemia group
Mean	-	6.95	7.74	8.42	8.97	9.71
SD		0.84	0.86	0.95	0.91	0.82
t-value		-2.39	2.33	5.05	2.34	1.62
p-value		p = 0.021	p = 0.023	p < 0.001	p = 0.022	P = 0.106
Hyperglycemia group
Mean	-	7.25	7.76	8.68	9.41	10.01
SD		0.88	0.82	0.98	1.65	1.40
t-value		1.14	2.31	8.80	6.94	2.19
p-value		p = 0.123	p = 0.034	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.042
Ischemic changes group
Mean	-	-	7.81	8.79	9.29	9.97
SD			0.70	1.12	0.87	1.31
t-value			2.29	8.36	5.43	2.14
p-value			p = 0.033	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.043
Retinal artery changes group
Mean	-	-	8.09	8.77	9.16	9.97
SD			0.77	1.25	1.10	1.14
t-value			2.60	6.69	3.77	2.38
p-value			p = 0.014	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.022
All high-risk groups combined
Mean	6.39	7.18	7.79	8.49	9.12	9.80
SD	0.69	0.85	0.85	0.98	1.05	1.14
t-value	-1.87	1.26	3.96	7.20	4.48	1.93
p-value	p = 0.061	p = 0.209	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.054

Note: SD is standard deviation and - indicates that the number of cases was too small to obtain any meaningful results.

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