TABLE 3.

List of metabolites significantly associated with pulse-wave velocity in the stepwise backward regression

Metabolite	Super-p	Sub-p	Beta (95% CI)	P
Phenylacetylglutamine	a-a	Phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism	−0.13 (−0.22–0.05)	2.20 × 10−3
Serine	a-a	Glycine, serine and threonine metabolism	−0.17 (−0.28–0.07)	1.20 × 10−3
Uridine	n	Pyrimidine metabolism, uracil containing	−0.18 (−0.28–0.09)	1.00 × 10−4

a-a, amino-acid; CI, confidence interval; n, nucleotide; sub-p, sub pathway; super-p, super pathway.