Table 3.

Partial Correlations for Cardiovascular Risk Factors Adjusted for Age and Sex and Digital Vascular Measures

Characteristic	BPA		PAT Ratio		PAT‐AIx*
	r	P Value	r	P Value	r	P Value
Sex (female=0, male=1)	0.381	<0.0001	−0.289	<0.0001	−0.153	<0.0001
Age	0.102	<0.0001	−0.048	0.06	0.331	<0.0001
Systolic blood pressure	0.062	0.02	0.029	0.27	0.225	<0.0001
Diastolic blood pressure	0.055	0.03	−0.036	0.16	0.199	<0.0001
Heart rate	−0.007	0.80	−0.049	0.06	—	—
Body mass índex	0.267	<0.0001	−0.181	<0.0001	−0.125	<0.0001
C‐reactive protein	0.089	0.001	−0.057	0.02	0.019	0.47
Total cholesterol/HDL	0.160	<0.0001	−0.130	<0.0001	−0.032	0.21
Triglycerides	0.179	<0.0001	−0.131	0.001	−0.015	0.57
Fasting glucose	0.106	<0.0001	−0.065	0.01	−0.009	0.73
Diabetes mellitus	0.091	<0.0001	−0.040	0.12	0.004	0.87
Abdominal obesity	0.182	<0.0001	−0.131	<0.0001	−0.072	<0.005
Smoking	0.010	0.68	0.012	0.63	0.223	<0.0001
Hypertension	0.081	0.001	−0.037	0.15	0.118	<0.0001
Hypertension treatment	0.085	0.001	−0.102	<0.0001	0.024	0.36
Lipid‐lowering agents	0.034	0.187	−0.030	0.24	−0.043	0.09
Prevalent cardiovascular disease	0.020	0.43	−0.103	<0.0001	−0.053	0.04
Physical activity status	−0.019	0.46	−0.002	0.46	−0.069	0.007
Level of education	−0.020	0.43	−0.011	0.67	−0.165	<0.0001
Annual family income	0.004	0.89	−0.011	0.66	−0.122	<0.0001

Data are presented as partial correlation coefficient and P values. The first 2 rows represent sex adjusted for age and age adjusted for sex. BPA indicates baseline pulse amplitude; HDL, high‐density lipoprotein; PAT, peripheral arterial tonometry; PAT‐AIx, augmentation index derived from PAT.

^*PAT‐AIx was also adjusted for heart rate and height.