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Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 Jul 16;3(5):515–519. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.110.958884

Table 3.

Multivariable-adjusted regressions for Peri-aortic Fat and Low ABI and Intermittent Claudication individually. Data presented as odds ratio of Low ABI or IC per 1 standard deviation increase of peri-aortic fat.

	Low ABI n=45		Intermittent Claudication n=35
Model	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Age, Sex	1.89 (1.42–2.52)	<0.001	1.90 (1.39–2.59)	<0.001
Age, Sex, MV ^†	1.78 (1.27–2.48)	<0.001	1.54 (1.08–2.19)	0.02
Age, Sex, MV^† + BMI	2.07 (1.41–3.04)	<0.001	1.62 (1.09–2.41)	0.02
Age, Sex, MV^† + VAT	1.98 (1.25–3.13)	0.004	1.69 (1.05–2.72)	0.03

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Multivariable (MV) adjusted for smoking, diabetes, hypertension, total/HDL cholesterol, lipid treatment, log triglycerides VAT, visceral adipose tissue; BMI, body mass index.