Associations among different functional and structural arterial wall properties and their relations to traditional cardiovascular risk factors in healthy subjects: a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Traditional risk factors in association with arterial wall properties

	IMT	FMD	β-stiffness	PWV
Age	0.003 (0.001)*	−0.045 (0.029)	0.128 (0.025)**	0.052 (0.010)**
BMI	0.005 (0.003)	−0.022 (0.063)	0.155 (0.054)**	0.058 (0.022)*
Systolic BP	0.002 (0.001)	0.037 (0.025)	−0.012 (0.021)	−0.007 (0.009)
Diastolic BP	−0.004 (0.001)**	−0.045 (0.030)	−0.009 (0.026)	0.030 (0.011)**
HR	0 (0.001)	0.039 (0.016)*	0 (0.014)	0 (0.006)
Total Cholesterol	−0.003 (0.007)	−0.201 (0.171)	0.149 (0.147)	0.080 (0.061)
HDL Cholesterol	−0.026 (0.022)	−1.143 (0.501)*	0.808 (0.431)	0.242 (0.179)
Serum glucose	0.033 (0.012)**	−0.233 (0.275)	0.232 (0.236)	0.106 (0.098)
Adjusted R ²	0.21	0.13	0.40	0.49

All values are multivariate linear regression coefficient values (SE). * signifies P < 0.05; ** signifies P < 0.01. Adjusted R² represents the percentage of variance for each separate response variable (the last row). BMI body mass index, BP blood pressure, HR heart rate, HDL high-density lipoprotein, FMD brachial artery flow-mediated dilation, PWV pulse wave velocity, IMT intima-media thickness

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