. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Congest Heart Fail. 2013 Mar 20;19(4):E29–E34. doi: 10.1111/chf.12025

Table 2.

Cerebral Perfusion Independently Predicts WMH in Older Adults with Heart Failure (N = 69)

Variable	WMH β (SE b)
Block 1
Age	.29(.02)^*
Sex	.26(.44)
AMNART	−.10(.01)
BMI	.05(.03)
BDI-II	.11(.03)
Hypertension	− .07(.40)
Diabetes	.07(.42)
Thyroid	−.18(.47)
Volume	.26(.00)
R²	.16
F	1.25

Block 2
CBF-V	−.34(.01)^*
R²	.23
F for ΔR²	5.57^*

Note.

denotes p ≤ 0.05

Abbreviations: β – standardized regression coefficients, SE – standard error; AMNART = North American Adult Reading Test; BMI = Body Mass Index; BDI-II = Beck Depression Inventory-II; Volume = Intracranial Volume; CBF-V = Cerebral Blood Velocity of the MCA