Table 3.

Multivariate relationships with carotid intima-media thickness (n = 177)

	Framingham factors alone		Framingham factors + PWV		Framingham factors + AIx		Framingham factors + cAP		Framingham factors + LpPLA2
	estimate	P	estimate	P	estimate	P	estimate	P	estimate	P
Age	0.074	<.0001	0.045	0.016	0.073	<.0001	0.068	0.004	0.075	<.0001
Female Gender	-0.111	0.002	-0.113	0.001	-0.127	0.002	-0.144	0.001	-0.113	0.002
Systolic BP	0.025	0.119	0.017	0.323	0.012	0.507	0.008	0.819	0.025	0.115
Total Cholesterol	0.014	0.397	0.003	0.862	0.005	0.772	0.005	0.809	0.018	0.296
HDL Cholesterol	0.018	0.303	0.022	0.205	0.024	0.201	0.024	0.245	0.017	0.322
Current Smoker	0.011	0.782	-0.003	0.937	0.023	0.596	0.007	0.893	0.018	0.659
Diabetes	-0.008	0.796	-0.010	0.745	0.000	0.994	-0.025	0.562	-0.010	0.763
Pulse wave velocity			0.049	0.016
Augmentation Index					0.021	0.295
Central Aortic Pressure							0.034	0.384
LpPLA2									-0.013	0.441