Table 2.

The relationship of left ventricular mass index with adiponectin^* according to hypertension status

	Without Hypertension N = 1,206		With Hypertension N = 1,418
	β	P-value	β	P-value
Crude (unadjusted)	−0.92||	0.001	0.47	0.17
Age-adjusted	−2.08	0.07	−0.94	0.59
Sex-adjusted	−1.08	0.0004	−0.002	0.99
BMI-adjusted	−0.29	0.28	0.73	0.02
HOMA-IR-adjusted†	−0.50	0.11	0.98	0.02
Fully-adjusted‡	−0.69	0.04	0.43	0.36

^*Per 1 standard deviation increment in the log values;

^†Adjusted for HOMA-IR;

^‡Adjusted for age, sex, BMI, alcohol drinking in the past 12 months (yes vs. no), HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides and HOMA-IR (log-transformed).