Factors associated with parasympathetic activation following exercise in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Linear regression model for factors associated with HRR1 and HRR2

	HRR1		HRR2
Variable	β	t (p)	β	t (p)
Cardiovascular risk factors
Age	−0.26	−1.25 (.21)	−0.46	−1.91 (.06)
Triglycerides	−21.69	−1.48 (.14)	−6.03	−0.37 (.71)
VO₂ peak	0.05	0.11 (.91)	0.45	−0.98 (.32)
Framingham risk score	0.09	0.01 (.99)	−2.72	−0.25 (.79)
Resting SBP^a			−0.07	−0.69 (.48)
HOMA^a			−2.51	−0.16 (.86)
Inflammatory markers
WBC	−0.57	−0.66 (.51)	−0.01	−0.02 (.98)
Fibrinogen	−3.18	−1.36 (.17)	−2.24	−0.94 (.34)
hsCRP^b	0.86	0.16 (.87)
ESR	4.49	0.70 (.48)	6.62	0.99 (.32)
Wellbeing
Vitality	1.27	0.98 (.32)	2.09	1.78 (.07)
EuroQol^b	33.65	1.09 (.27)
R2 and p-value of the model	R²	p	R²	p
	0.297	0.009	0.379	0.001

^aIndicates variable that was not correlated with HRR1 in univariate analyses, therefore, was not included in model 1
^bIndicates variable that was not correlated with HRR2 in univariate analyses, therefore, was not included in model 2
p value in bold indicate statistical significance

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