Table 3.

Race-specific Association of MPO with Aortic Plaque Burden (APB) and Aortic Wall Thickness (AWT) After Adjustment for Traditional Risk Factors

	APB				AWT
	African American (n=1097)		White or Hispanics (n=1192)		African American (n=1102)		White or Hispanics (n=1198)
	Beta coeff	P value	Beta coeff	P value	Beta coeff	P value	Beta coeff	P value
Age (years)	0.06	<0.01	0.07	<0.01	0.01	<0.01	0.01	<0.01
Male	0.09	0.39	0.22	0.03	0.13	<0.01	0.16	<0.01
Body Mass Index (kg/m2)	−0.03	<0.01	−0.03	<0.01	0.001	0.58	0.001	0.34
Hypertension	0.40	<0.01	0.22	0.07	0.07	<0.01	0.04	0.05
Current smoker	0.58	<0.01	0.82	<0.01	0.11	<0.01	0.12	<0.01
Hypercholesterolemia	0.20	0.16	0.50	<0.01	0.01	0.74	0.08	<0.01
Low HDL	0.01	0.95	0.30	<0.01	0.05	0.01	0.08	<0.01
Diabetes Mellitus	0.23	0.11	0.40	0.03	0.03	0.19	0.07	0.03
Q1	Reference		Reference		Reference		Reference
Q2	−0.06	0.67	−0.03	0.81	0.02	0.33	−0.05	0.02
Q3	0.17	0.24	−0.19	0.18	0.04	0.11	−0.05	0.02
Q4	0.42	<0.01	−0.06	0.70	0.07	<0.01	−0.01	0.73
log_MPO (1 stdev)	0.16	<0.01	−0.02	0.73	0.02	<0.01	0.01	0.41

APB, aorta plaque burden; AWT, aorta wall thickness.