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Table 4.

Step‐wise Models of the Relation of Risk Factors to Digital Vascular Measures

Characteristic	BPA			PAT Ratio			PAT‐AIx
Characteristic	β (SE)	Partial R²	P Value	β (SE)	Partial R²	P Value	β (SE)	Partial R²	P Value
Sex (F=0, M=1)	0.56 (0.04)	0.149	<0.0001	−0.20 (0.02)	0.084	<0.0001	−9.31 (0.99)	0.202	<0.0001
Age	0.01 (0.01)	0.149	0.005	−0.01 (0.01)	0.084	0.35	0.53 (0.05)	0.202	<0.0001
Systolic BP	—	—	—	0.01(0.01)	0.004	0.003	0.15(0.04)	0.039	<0.0001
Diastolic BP	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.20 (0.06)	0.005	0.001
Heart rate	—	—	—	—	—	—	−0.50 (0.04)	0.069	<0.0001
Height	—	—	—	—	—	—	−0.24 (0.05)	0.008	<0.0001
BMI	0.04 (0.01)	0.061	<0.0001	−0.01 (0.01)	0.030	<0.0001	−0.58 (0.08)	0.019	<0.0001
Total/HDL cholesterol	0.05 (0.02)	0.002	0.04	−0.04 (0 .01)	0.008	<0.0001	—	—	—
Triglygerides	0.12 (0.05)	0.011	0.01	—	—	—	—	—	—
Smoking	—	—	—	—	—	—	10.39 (1.05)	0.041	<0.0001
Hypertensive treatment	—	—	—	−0.05 (0.02)	0.003	0.03	—	—	—
Prevalent CVD	—	—	—	−0.16 (0.05)	0.008	<0.0001	−3.55 (1.72)	0.002	0.01
Model R	0.22			0.14			0.38

BMI indicates body mass index; BP, blood pressure; BPA, baseline pulse amplitude; CVD, cardiovascular disease; F, female; HDL, high‐density lipoprotein; M, male; PAT, peripheral arterial tonometry; PAT‐AIx, augmentation index derived from PAT.