Acute effect of healthy walking on arterial stiffness in patients with type 2 diabetes and differences by age and sex: a pre-post intervention study

Table 5 Determinants in the improvement of arterial stiffness after a healthy walk

	Cardio ankle vascular index			Pulse pressure in the ankles
	OR	95% CI	p-value	OR	95% CI	p-value
Sex	2.981	1.095 to 8.119	0.033	2.433	0.871 to 6.794	0.090
Age	0.978	0.897 to 1.066	0.614	0.989	0.907 to 1.079	0.809
Office diastolic blood pressure	1.039	0.982 to 1.100	0.182	1.035	0.975 to 1.099	0.263
Hypertension	0.531	0.183 to 1.543	0.245	0.769	0.276 to 2.269	0.663
Dyslipidemia	0.813	0.314 to 2.103	0.669	1.018	0.376 to 2.756	0.971
Physical activity	1.000	0.999 to 1.000	0.129	1.000	1.000 to 1.000	0.821
BMI	0.992	0.881 to 1.117	0.894	1.084	0.948 to 1.241	0.239
Baseline CAVI value	1.796	1.152 to 2.799	0.010	–	–	–
Baseline Pulse pressure value	–	–	–	1.037	0.999 to 1.075	0.055

Logistic regression analysis with CAVI decrease (0 = No decrease; 1 = decrease) and Pulse pressure decrease (0 = No decrease; 1 = decrease) as dependent variables and Sex (1: male; 0: female), age (years), office diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), Hypertension (1: Hypertensive subject; 0: Non-hypertensive subject), dyslipidemia (1: dyslipidemic subject; 0: non-dyslipidemic subject), physical activity (METs/min/week), BMI (kg/m²), baseline CAVI value or baseline ankle pulse pressure vale (mmHg), as independent variables

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