Table 3.

Correlations between PWVs and anthropometric and hemodynamic values, n =531

	Carotid-femoral		Carotid-radial		Carotid-distal
	Coefficient	P-value	Coefficient	P-value	Coefficient	P-value
Agea (years)	0.3358	<0.001	0.2599	<0.001	0.2612	<0.001
BMIb (kg/m2)	0.2827c	<0.001	0.0985	0.023	0.1625	<0.001
Waist circumferenceb (cm)	0.3079c	<0.001	0.0853	0.048	0.1582	<0.001
Sum of skinfoldb (mm)	0.2681c	<0.001	0.0961	0.036	0.1355	0.002
SBPd (mm Hg)	0.2761	<0.001	0.1973	<0.001	0.3780e	<0.001
DBPd (mm Hg)	0.2957	<0.001	0.3548	<0.001	0.4587e	<0.001
MAPd (mm Hg)	0.2999	<0.001	0.2836	<0.001	0.4554e	<0.001
PPd (mm Hg)	0.1385	0.001	0.0468	0.256	0.1328	0.002
TPR indexd	0.0930	0.054	0.1976	<0.001	0.1841	<0.001
Cardiac indexd	0.0834	0.03	−0.0419	0.391	0.0834	0.051

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; crPWV, carotid-radial pulse wave velocity; DPB, diastolic blood pressure; MAP, mean arterial blood pressure; PP, pulse pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure; TPR index, total peripheral resistance index.

P-value calculated by generalize estimate equation.

^aadjusted for ethnicity, gender, BMI and cohort.

^badjusted for age, ethnicity, gender and cohort.

^cSignificantly higher than the correlation coefficients observed in crPWV and cdPWV.

^dAdjusted for age, ethnicity, gender, BMI and cohort.

^eSignificantly higher than the correlation coefficients observed in carotid-femoral PWV and crPWV.