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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 May 29;16(8):1914–1919. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.278

Table 4.

Association of pericardial fat with presence of calcified coronary plaque, MESA, 2001–2002

	OR (95% CI)^* of the presence of calcified coronary plaque (N=159)	p-value
Model 1
Pericardial fat^†, 46.6 cm³	2.24 (1.38, 3.64)	0.0011
Body mass index^†, 4.4 kg/m²	0.56 (0.33, 0.95)	0.033
Waist circumference^†, 12.5 cm	1.33 (0.76, 2.31)	0.31
Model 2^‡
Pericardial fat^†, 46.6 cm³	2.10 (1.28, 3.45)	0.003
Age, year	1.14 (1.06, 1.23)	0.0003
C-reactive protein, mg/L	0.92 (0.86, 0.99)	0.024

Odds ratio (95% confidence interval)

^†

Per standard deviation

^‡

Including age, gender, race, height, smoking status, alcohol drinking status, systolic blood pressure, use of anti-hypertensive medications, total and HDL cholesterol, use of lipid-lowering medications, C-reactive protein, use of statins, diabetic status and pericardial fat in the model with a stepwise selection at the 0.05 significance level