Table 4.

Association of presence/absence of Coronary Calcium with Descending thoracic calcification in relative risk regression.

	Unadjusted Prevalence Ratio (95% CI)	Fully Adjusted* Prevalence Ratio (95% CI)
DTAC status
DTAC=0	1.00 (ref)	1.00 (ref)
DTAC>0	1.39 (1.26, 1.53)†	1.17 (1.07, 1.28)†
Continuous DTAC
Ln(DTAC+1)	1.07 (1.06, 1.08)†	1.02 (1.01, 1.03) †

^*adjusted for age, gender, race, smoking, hypertension, Diabetes, Family History of Heart Disease, LDL, HDL, lipid lowering medications, interleuken-6, fibrinogen, Factor VIII, body mass index. DTAC = descending thoracic aortic calcification

^†p< 0.05