Table 4.
Multiple linear regression analysis with IIEF score as the dependent variable and LVH, MS, diastolic dysfunction, impaired renal function, albuminuria (ACR ≥3), and carotid plaques as independent variables
| Model term | Coefficient | SE | T | Significance | 95% CI |
Importance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lower | upper | ||||||
| Intercept | 13.179 | 1.663 | 7.926 | 0.0001 | 9.898 | 16.460 | |
| LVH | 1.761 | 0.566 | 3.113 | 0.002 | 0.645 | 2.878 | 0.399 |
| eGFR <60 mL/min/1.73m2 | 6.207 | 1.626 | 3.818 | 0.0001 | 0.299 | 9.415 | 0.601 |
LVH, left ventricle hypertrophy; MS, metabolic syndrome; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; SE, standard error.