Table 3. Univariate and multivariate predictors of severe atherosclerosis in the ascending aorta.

Variable	Univariate			Multivariate
	OR (95% CI)	P value		OR (95% CI)	P value
Age	1.09 (1.05–1.13)	<0.001			0.056
Female gender	1.83 (0.97–3.46)	0.064			0.197
Body mass index	0.99 (0.93–1.05)	0.675			0.962
Diabetes mellitus	0.98 (0.53–1.83)	0.954			0.896
Chronic obstructive lung disease	3.38 (1.22–9.40)	0.019			0.382
Peripheral vascular disease	2.02 (0.59–6.83)	0.261			0.381
End stage renal failure	5.94 (1.53–23.0)	0.010			0.078
Cerebrovascular accident	1.84 (0.82–4.13)	0.137			0.352
Ejection fraction	1.01 (0.99–1.04)	0.298			0.940
SYNTAX score (per 10 point increase)	1.56 (1.04–2.32)	0.031		1.63 (1.01–2.62)	0.046
SYNTAX score (categorical)
Low	Reference			Reference
Intermediate	1.16 (0.24–5.55)	0.855		1.18 (0.21–6.73)	0.851
High	3.93 (1.08–14.2)	0.037		5.20 (1.15–23.5)	0.032

Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test (P=0.576), c-statistic (0.647).