Table 3.

—Univariate and Multivariate Analyses Between AHI and LTL and Covariates

	Telomere Length (T/S Ratio)a
	Univariate			Stepwise Multivariate
Independent Variable	β	SE	P	β	SE	P
Age	−0.010	0.006	.114	…	…	…
Sex	0.000	0.019	.983	…	…	…
Race	0.010	0.011	.325	…	…	…
BMI z score	0.012	0.008	.126	…	…	…
AHIa	0.042	0.016	.009	0.28	0.03	.002

SE = standard error. See Table 1 for expansion of other abbreviations.

^aData were log transformed.