TABLE 2.

Unadjusted and Adjusted Correlates of Serum Fetuin-A Concentrations

	Unadjusted		Adjusted*
Variable	β	P	β	P
Demographics
Age (per 10 y)	–0.022±0.004	<0.001	–0.021±0.008	0.006
Male sex	–0.038±0.012	0.003	–0.042±0.016	0.009
White (vs nonwhite)	–0.019±0.010	0.30
Tobacco use	0.008±0.012	0.52
Alcohol use	–0.022±0.011	0.04
Medical history
Hypertension	0.004±0.011	0.65
Myocardial infarction	–0.002±0.010	0.86
Angioplasty	–0.013±0.010	0.20
Coronary bypass	–0.010±0.010	0.36
Measurements
Creatinine clearance (per 30.7-mL/min increase)†	0.024±0.005	<0.001
Microalbuminuria	–0.022±0.018	0.21
Body mass index (per 5.0-kg/m2 increase)†	0.025±0.005	<0.0001	0.020±0.007	0.008
Inducible ischemia	–0.019±0.012	0.12
Hemoglobin (per 1.4-g/dL increase)†	0.027±0.005	<0.001	0.027±0.006	<0.001
Albumin (per 0.3-mg/dL increase)†	0.027±0.005	<0.001	0.022±0.006	0.001
Log CRP (per 1.3-unit increase)†	0.013±0.005	0.01
Fibrinogen (per 89-mg/dL increase)†	0.012±0.005	0.02	0.015±0.007	0.04
Pulse pressure (per 15.8–mm Hg increase)†	0.002±0.005	0.67

^†Coefficients are mean±SE and reflect change per 1 SD.

^*Coefficients for variables that remained independently associated with fetuin-A after adjustment for all other variables in the table.