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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Sci. 2008 Apr 28;271(1-2):53–60. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.03.009

Table 2.

Linear Regression Models of demographic variables for (A) imaging features and (B) vascular risk factors.

Brain Atrophy Log (Ventricular Volume) Log (Volume of White Matter Hyperintensity)

Estimate SE p Estimate SE p Estimate SE p
A. Imaging Features
Intercept −326.506 28.146 <0.001 −10.1139 1.2609 <0.001 −7.7731 1.4610 <0.001
Age 3.397 0.215 <0.001 0.0310 0.0018 <0.001 0.0381 0.0022 <0.001
Male Gender 6.176 4.368 0.157 0.1163 0.0335 <0.001 0.0448 0.0381 0.239
African-American Race 17.569 3.567 <0.001 −0.0811 0.0306 0.008 0.2058 0.0351 <0.001
Log (Brain Volume)/Log(TIV)/TIV* 0.289 0.017 <0.001 1.5416 0.1721 <0.001 1.0318 0.1992 <0.001

B. Vascular Risk Factors
Hypertension severity 4.909 1.372 <0.001 0.0251 0.0099 0.011 0.0690 0.0125 <0.001
Log(serum glucose) 29.03 6.487 <0.001 0.1875 0.0558 <0.001 0.1350 0.0676 0.046
Serum homocysteine 2.573 0.557 <0.001 0.0107 0.0039 0.007 0.0167 0.0063 0.008
Log(pack-years smoking) 0.999 1.035 0.334 0.0143 0.0079 0.071 0.0282 0.0100 0.005
Total Cholesterol −0.030 0.042 0.478 0.0003 0.0003 0.314 −0.0011 0.0004 0.007
High-density Lipoproteins 0.147 0.093 0.114 0.0006 0.0007 0.405 −0.0014 0.0009 0.111
Calculated Low-density Lipoproteins −0.064 0.044 0.143 0.0000 0.0003 0.927 −0.0011 0.0004 0.014
Log(triglycerides) 3.449 3.194 0.280 0.0749 0.0257 0.004 0.0547 0.0287 0.056
*

TIV: Total Intracranial Volume

Risk factor models control for age at time of MR exam, gender, race, and total intracranial volume (for BA and VV) or brain volume (for WMH)