The relationship between various measures of obesity and arterial stiffness in morbidly obese patients

Table 3 Independent predictors of PWV after adjustment for age, hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

Body composition	Β	95% CI	P	R Square
Female
Body mass index (kg/m²)	0.129	0.068 to 0.190	<0.001	0.42
Waist circumference (cm)	0.047	0.010 to 0.083	0.013	0.33
Waist-to-hip ratio	-1.297	-6.109 to 3.522	0.594	0.28
Waist-to-height ratio	0.108	0.052 to 0.164	<0.001	0.40
Visceral fat area (cm²)	0.014	0.005 to 0.024	0.004	0.35
Fat mass (kg)	0.047	0.015 to 0.080	0.004	0.35
Fat free mass (kg)	0.009	-0.046 to 0.065	0.736	0.27
Male
Body mass index (kg/m²)	-0.009	-0.083 to 0.065	0.806	0.47
Waist circumference (cm)	0.014	-0.023 to 0.052	0.440	0.48
Waist-to-hip ratio	1.933	-3.707 to 7.574	0.494	0.48
Waist-to-height ratio	0.021	-0.053 to 0.094	0.575	0.48
Visceral fat area (cm²)	0.003	-0.005 to 0.011	0.470	0.49
Fat mass (kg)	0.005	-0.024 to 0.035	0.719	0.48
Fat free mass (kg)	0.008	-0.033 to 0.050	0.693	0.48

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