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Table 4.

Estimated model for left ventricular mass, Project HeartBeat!, 1991–1995

Parameter	Estimate	SE	p-value
Fixed parameters
Constant	100.5	0.8272	0.000
Gender (0, male; 1, female)	−8.959	1.02	0.000
Age (years)	−2.104	0.3265	0.000
Age² (years)	−0.113	0.05217	0.030
FFM (kg)	2.425	0.08499	0.000
PBF (%)	0.6759	0.05495	0.000
Between-subjects variance/covariance
Constant	160.0	13.27	0.000
FFM/constant	7.168	0.7567	0.000
FFM	0.4694	0.08655	0.000
Within-subjects variance
Error	278.4	6.510	0.000
−2 log (likelihood)	38,998

Note: Continuous predictive variables were centered before modeling.