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) | |||||||
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Estimate | SE | p | Estimate | SE | p | Estimate | SE | p | |
A. Imaging Features
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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 |
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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)