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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2008 Oct 8;71(1):70–76. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181865f73

Table 3.

Multiple Regression Analyses Relating Depressive Symptom Trajectory and History of Significant Depressive Symptoms to Future Carotid IMT

Depressive Symptom Trajectory History of Significant Depressive Symptoms

Variable Beta Standard error t p Beta Standard error t p
Age 0.0048 0.0003 14.42 <.001* 0.0048 0.0003 14.48 <.001*
Sex1 0.0258 0.0090 2.88 .004* 0.0258 0.0089 2.89 .004*
Race2 −0.0198 0.0101 −1.96 .05 −0.0205 0.0101 −2.03 .04*
Education 0.0014 0.0017 0.81 .42 0.0014 0.0017 0.79 .43
SBP 0.0008 0.0002 3.54 <.001* 0.0008 0.0002 3.54 <.001*
LDL cholesterol 0.0002 0.0001 1.16 .25 0.0002 0.0001 1.14 .25
Body mass index 0.0021 0.0011 1.99 .046* 0.0021 0.0011 1.98 .048*
Diabetes 0.0128 0.0198 0.65 .52 0.0128 0.0198 0.64 .52
Antihypertensive or lipid-lowering medications 0.0067 0.0109 0.61 .54 0.0070 0.0109 0.65 .52
Antidepressants −0.0041 0.0149 −0.27 .79 −0.0044 0.0150 −0.29 .77
Smoking −0.0023 0.0086 −0.27 .79 −0.0023 0.0086 −0.27 .79
CES-D intercept 0.0009 0.0021 0.44 .66 -- -- -- --
CES-D (trajectory or significant symptoms) 0.0816 0.1949 0.42 .68 0.0044 0.0111 0.39 .69
*

p<.05

1

Sex was coded female (0) vs. male (1).

2

Race was coded as non-White (0) vs. White (1).