Fig. 3.
Relationships between cardiovascular disease risk factors and carotid 18F-florbetaben uptake expressed as meanTBRmax. a Male gender was a significant independent predictor of carotid 18F-florbetaben uptake after correction for other risk factors (p = 0.009). Thus men showed significantly higher carotid meanTBRmax values than women. b Factors showing no statistically significant relationship with carotid 18F-florbetaben uptake: age >65 years, BMI ≥30 kg/m2, hypertension, diabetes, history of stroke, and history of coronary artery disease (CAD). None of these cardiovascular risk factors was significantly related to the 18F-florbetaben uptake in the carotid arteries in either the univariate analysis or the multivariate linear regression analysis. The data are presented as medians (bold lines), 25th and 75th percentiles (boxes), and 5th and 95th percentiles (whiskers); circles represent outliers