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. 2016 Jan 12;16:8. doi: 10.1186/s12872-015-0170-6

Table 4.

Risk factors associated with peripheral artery disease (PAD). Multivariate analysisa

Baseline variablesb HR CI 95 % p
Age (by year) 1.04 1.01–1.07 0.003
Low HDL (<40 mg/dl men, <50 mg/dl women) 1.68 1.08–2.63 0.023
Moderate limitation of physical activities 1.99 1.18–3.37 0.010
Only light activities or any activity causes breathlessness 2.36 1.21–4.63 0.011
Former smoker 2.49 1.53–4.05 0.000
Current smoker 3.49 2.07–5.90 0.000

aAlso adjusted by baseline ankle-brachial index

b20 subjects with missing values excluded