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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2019 Dec 23;75(2):580–587. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.13478

Table 5.

Clinical variables associated with upper quartile of white matter hyperintensity volume. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis.

BP variable Univariable Multivariable model*
OR (95%CI) p value OR (95%CI) p value
Brachial BP variables
 Brachial SBP, per 10 mmHg 1.17 (1.08–1.27) <0.001 1.08 (0.98–1.19) 0.15
 Brachial DBP, per 10 mmHg 1.08 (0.93–1.26) 0.30 1.13 (0.96–1.34) 0.15
 Brachial PP, per 10 mmHg 1.21 (1.10–1.33) <0.001 1.04 (0.93–1.16) 0.50
Central BP variables
 Central SBP, per 10 mmHg 1.21 (1.12–1.30) <0.001 1.19 (1.09–1.29) <0.001
 Central DBP, per 10 mmHg 0.93 (0.80–1.07) 0.28 1.09 (0.94–1.28) 0.25
 Central PP, per 10 mmHg 1.37 (1.25–1.51) <0.001 1.27 (1.14–1.42) <0.001

BP, blood pressure; CI, confidence interval; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; OR, odds ratio; PP, pulse pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure.

*

Adjusted for age, race, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, body mass index, heart rate and time interval between tests.