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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008 Jul 24;56(8):1504–1510. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01797.x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Adjusted associations between blood marker quartiles and 6-minute walk performance in participants with lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (n=423). Data are adjusted for age, sex, race, cigarette smoking, body mass index, ankle-brachial index, leg symptoms, recruitment cohort, comorbidities, and creatinine clearance (for D-dimer and homocysteine only). Comorbidities adjusted for were knee arthritis, hip arthritis, spinal stenosis, disk disease, diabetes mellitus, cancer, pulmonary disease, and other cardiovascular diseases (myocardial infarction, stroke, angina pectoris, and heart failure). IL-6=interleukin 6; CRP=C-reactive protein; sVCAM-1=soluble vascular cellular adhesion molecule-1; sICAM-1=soluble intracellular adhesion molecule-1.