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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2009 Feb 12;206(1):173–178. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.02.003

Table 4.

Variables associated with the hazard of stopping walking: multivariable regression analyses based on Cox proportional-hazards models.

Variable Model 1 Model 2 Model 3



β ± SE P β ± SE P β ± SE P
Age, years 0.021 ± 0.024 0.40 0.017 ± 0.025 0.50 −0.015 ± 0.026 0.56
Female sex 0.111 ± 0.368 0.76 −0.104 ± 0.407 0.80 −0.110 ± 0.406 0.79
Body mass index, kg/m2 0.070 ± 0.035 0.043 0.057 ± 0.036 0.11 0.060 ± 0.037 0.11
Resting heart rate, bpm 0.012 ± 0.015 0.45 0.012 ± 0.015 0.43 0.011 ± 0.015 0.47
MAP, mmHg −0.008 ± 0.014 0.55 −0.021 ± 0.017 0.23 −0.021 ± 0.017 0.22
Smoking history −0.756 ± 0.509 0.14 0.765 ± 0.511 0.14 0.755 ± 0.501 0.14
Diabetes −0.415 ± 0.413 0.32 −0.450 ± 0.416 0.28 −0.474 ± 0.425 0.26
Log baPWV, m/s 5.678 ± 2.527 0.025 5.246 ± 2.567 0.041 5.410 ± 2.616 0.039
Brachial PP, mmHg 0.027 ± 0.020 0.17 0.027 ± 0.020 0.17
Ankle-brachial index −0.292 ± 0.951 0.76
R2 0.15 0.16 0.16