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Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Feb;12(2):e008513. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.008513

Table 5. Factors associated with disease activity in MAC.

Predictors of log-transformed 18F-fluoride TBR_max in multiple linear regression model.

	Model 1 (n=98)			Model 2 (n=68)
	beta	95% CI	p	beta	95% CI	p
Age (per 10 years)	-0.002	-0.070, 0.066	0.953	0.065	-0.019, 0.148	0.127
Sex	-0.172	-0.289, -0.054	0.005*	-0.082	-0.229, 0.066	0.273
AVC (per 100 AU)	0.003	-0.000, 0.005	0.052	0.002	-0.002, 0.005	0.318
eGFR (per 10 ml/min)	-0.032	-0.061, -0.003	0.030*	-0.001	-0.039, 0.038	0.988
MAC (per 100 AU)	0.014	0.011, 0.018	<0.001*	0.010	0.005, 0.015	<0.001*
18F-FDG TBR_max (per 0.1)	--	--	--	0.049	0.021, 0.077	0.001*

Model 1 includes age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, LDL, prior CVD, and to variables with p>0.2 in bivariate comparisons, followed by backwards stepwise elimination process.

Model 2 includes 18F-FDG TBR_max in addition to variables in model 1.