Table 2.

Univariate analysis of the associations between clinical cardiovascular disease risk factors and carotid ¹⁸F-florbetaben uptake expressed as _meanTBR_max

Risk factor	95% confidence interval	p value
Male gender	0.08–0.527	0.009
Age >65 years	−0.412–0.09	0.202
Body mass index ≥30 kg/m2	−0.276–0.535	0.522
Diabetes	−0.366–0.146	0.389
Hypertension	−0.295–0.279	0.956
History of stroke	−0.779–0.397	0.513
History of coronary artery disease	−0.126–0.158	0.432

After confirming normality of the data distribution, univariate analysis was performed using the t test for independent samples