Table 5.

Multivariate linear regression analysis from statistically significant predictors of left and maximum common carotid IMT, $\mathrm{\Delta }$CIMT as well as binary logistic regression analysis from statistically significant predictors of pathological values of age and sex adjusted common carotid IMT right or left and carotid plaque. Linear/logistic regression coefficient (B/Exp(B)) and 95% confidence interval.

Dependent parameters	Independent parameters	B/Exp(B)	Confidence Interval 95%		p
			Lower bound	Upper bound
CIMT sin	T-C	0.024	0.005	0.042	0.013
CIMT max	Sex (male)	–0.087	–0.14	–0.034	0.002
	SCORE	0.028	0.014	0.042	0.001
asCIMT bilat	T-C	58*	1.94	1752.41	0.019
	LDL-C	0.017*	0.0003	0.902	0.044
$\mathrm{\Delta }$CIMT	Number of RFs	0.033	0.012	0.055	0.003
	Positive FH	–0.075	–0.134	–0.017	0.013
Carotid plaque	Number of RFs	1.71*	1.099	2.68	0.017

Remarks: SCORE, Systematic Coronary Risk Estimation; CIMT, carotid artery intima-media thickness; IMT, intima-media thickness; CIMT sin/max, common carotid artery intima-media thickness: mean value of left carotid artery/maximum value; asCIMT bilat, pathological common carotid artery intima-media thickness by age and sex on the right or left; $\mathrm{\Delta }$CIMT, difference in mean left common carotid artery intima-media thickness during follow-up; RFs, risk factors; FH, family history; T-C, total cholesterol; LDL-C, low density lipoprotein cholesterol; B, linear regression coefficient; *, logistic regression coefficient Exp(B); p, statistical significance. Due to listwise elimination of cases with missing cases there was a reduction in sample size in multivariate analysis (The actual sample size of CIMT sin/max/asCIMT bilat N = 86, for $\mathrm{\Delta }$CIMTsin N = 84, for carotid plaque N = 80. Positive cases: 36$\times$ CIMTsin and CIMT max, 64$\times$ asCIMT bilat, 13$\times$ carotid plaque).