Table 6.
Binary logistic regression analysis of aortic valve calcification.
| Item | Before excluding confounding factors | After excluding confounding factors | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | p | B | p | OR | 95% CI | |
| Age | 0.058 | 0.001∗∗ | 0.058 | 0.001∗∗ | 1.060 | 1.025–1.096 |
| Diabetes | 0.835 | 0.005∗∗ | 0.779 | 0.008∗∗ | 2.180 | 1.216–3.905 |
| DBP | −0.034 | 0.007∗∗ | −0.032 | 0.010∗ | 0.968 | 0.945–0.992 |
| APOB/APOA1 | 1.827 | 0.026∗ | 1.713 | 0.034∗ | 5.544 | 1.139–26.984 |
| Cys-c | 1.673 | 0.032∗ | 1.732 | 0.026∗ | 5.652 | 1.227–26.035 |
| NLR | 0.464 | < 0.001∗∗∗ | 0.464 | < 0.001∗∗∗ | 1.590 | 1.232–2.053 |
Abbreviations: APOB/APOA1, Apolipoprotein B/Apolipoprotein A1; Cys-c, Cystatin C; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; NLR, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio.
∗p < 0.05, ∗∗p < 0.01, ∗∗∗p < 0.001: statistically significant difference.