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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2008 Jul 2;102(7):820–824. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.05.020

Table 3.

Covariates as predictors of change in brachial artery flow-mediated dilation following 3 months of program participation, initially found significant in the stepwise model, then re-run using the general linear model with Type III sums of squares so that the P-value of each covariate reflects adjustment for all other covariates. All analyses were performed using the SAS statistical analysis package, utilizing the STEPWISE, GLM, and MEANS procedures (SAS User's Guide: Statistics, Version 9 Edition: SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC). All reported P-values are based on two-sided t-tests.

Variable P Value
Baseline flow-mediated dilation < 0.0001
Change in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol < 0.0001
Change in total cholesterol 0.0002
Change in diastolic blood pressure 0.0175
Age 0.0104
Change in colony-forming units 0.0377
Change in peak oxygen consumption (mL 02/kg/min) 0.0536