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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2008 Aug 5;203(2):610–614. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2008.07.031

Table 2.

Univariate relationship between dependent variable Ln (CAC+1) and independent variables

Independent Variable β SE of β P-value
Age (years) 0.12 0.02 < 0.01
BMI (kg/m2) 0.01 0.04 0.68
Waist circumference (cm) 0.02 0.01 0.11
Non-Hispanic whites (vs. others) 1.30 0.31 < 0.01
Diabetes duration (years) 0.08 0.02 < 0.01
Hypertension (yes/no) 1.18 0.37 < 0.01
Statin use (yes/no) 0.72 0.31 0.02
TZD use (yes/no) 0.27 0.49 0.58
Ever smoker (yes/no) 0.37 0.34 0.28
HbA1c (%) −0.42 0.11 < 0.01
Total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol −0.01 0.09 0.94
AAC score 0.00036 0.000036 < 0.01
CRP (mg/L) −0.04 0.04 0.38
Lp-PLA2 (ng/mL) 0.000052 0.00195 0.98
IL-6 (pg/mL) 0.11 0.06 0.07

BMI: body mass index; TZD: thiazolidinedione; HbA1c: hemoglobin A1c; HDL: high density lipoprotein; CAC: coronary artery calcium; AAC: abdominal aortic calcium; CRP: high sensitivity C reactive protein; Lp-PLA2: lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2; IL-6: interleukin-6.