Table 4.
Associations of cardiovascular risk factors with CIMT in college students: multivariable linear regression (N=768)
| Difference in IMT, µm* |
95%CI | p- value |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race/ethnicity | 0.001 | |||
| Non-hispanic White | ref | |||
| Asian | - | |||
| −14.3 | 24.3 | −4.4 | 0.005 | |
| African-American | 17.3 | −0.3 | 34.8 | 0.05 |
| Hispanic White | - | |||
| −15.4 | 26.2 | −4.7 | 0.005 | |
| Other | - | |||
| −3.8 | 15.8 | 8.2 | 0.53 | |
| Male sex | 15.4 | 6.6 | 24.2 | 0.001 |
| Age, yrs | 0.4 | −2.0 | 2.9 | 0.72 |
| BMI | 1.4 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 0.01 |
| Systolic Blood Pressure | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.04 |
*
adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, BMI, and systolic blood pressure
CIMT=carotid intima-media thickness, BMI = body mass index