Table 3.

Fully adjusted study-stratified model for common CIMT using Z-score CIMT values^* for MESA and HNR

Variable	MESA			HNR
	ΔSD	95% confidence interval	P	ΔSD	95% confidence interval	P
Age (per year)	0.035	0.030 to 0.039	<.0001	0.038	0.029 to 0.039	<.0001
Age2	0.0006	0.0004 to 0.011	.0011	−0.0004	−0.0001 to 0.002	.227
Male gender	0.20	0.20 to 0.38	<.0001	0.32	0.24 to 0.40	<.0001
Body mass index (kg/m2)	0.012	0.006 to 0.019	.0038	0.013	0.005 to 0.021	<.0001
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	0.011	0.009 to 0.014	<.0001	0.010	0.005 to 0.021	.0020
Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	−0.010	−0.016 to −0.004	.0004	−0.009	−0.014 to −0.004	.0005
Use of antihypertensive drugs	0.053	−0.033 to 0.140	.2254	0.072	−0.007 to 0.152	.0749
Ever smoker	0.027	−0.060 to 0.113	.5464	0.059	−0.023 to 0.142	.1609
Pack-years of smoking	0.002	0.000 to 0.004	.0174	0.003	0.001 to 0.005	.0008
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	0.002	0.001 to 0.003	.0025	0.002	0.001 to 0.003	<.0001
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)	−0.004	−0.008 to −0.001	.0043	−0.006	−0.0081 to −0.0032	<.0001
Use of lipid-lowering drugs	0.053	−0.122 to 0.154	.3099	0.012	−0.122 to 0.125	.9843
Triglycerides (10 mg/dL)	−0.0001	−0.001 to −0.0004	.6556	−0.0006	−0.001 to −0.0003	.0012
Diabetes (treatment or glucose > 126 mg/dL)	0.133	−0.03 to 0.38	.1178	0.08	−0.03 to 0.19	.1653

^*CIMT was scaled within the study to have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.