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

Table 4 Comparison of average CAVI scores between CVD risk-free group and CVD high-risk groups for females

Age	20-29	30-39	40-49	50-59	60-69	70-75
CVD risk-free group
Mean	6.57	6.97	7.29	7.82	8.26	8.71
SD	0.66	0.63	0.66	0.70	0.72	0.74
Hypertension group
Mean	-	7.02	7.73	8.16	8.89	9.46
SD		0.74	1.02	0.84	0.96	1.02
t-value		0.40	6.85	8.22	6.44	2.38
p-value		p = 0.346	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.023
Hypercholesterolemia & Hypertriglyceridemia group
Mean	-	6.97	7.68	8.00	8.77	9.26
SD		0.78	1.21	0.78	0.90	0.74
t-value		-0.03	4.12	3.82	5.06	2.28
p-value		p = 0.914	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.034
Hyperglycemia group
Mean	-	-	7.47	8.16	9.09	9.77
SD			0.86	0.74	1.04	0.79
t-value			1.74	5.23	6.57	3.69
p-value			p = 0.093	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001
Ischemic changes group
Mean	-	-	7.49	8.10	8.75	9.39
SD			0.82	0.82	0.88	1.02
t-value			2.95	5.71	4.69	2.07
p-value			p = 0.004	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.052
Retinal artery changes group
Mean	-	-	8.03	8.34	9.36	9.32
SD			0.89	0.86	1.11	0.87
t-value			3.97	5.24	7.37	1.92
p-value			p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.071
All high-risk groups combined
Mean	6.88	6.93	7.58	8.12	8.81	9.34
SD	0.42	0.76	0.91	0.81	0.96	0.99
t-value	1.48	-0.56	6.25	8.05	5.96	2.09
p-value	p = 0.138	p = 0.578	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p = 0.038

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

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