Table 3.

Longitudinal mixed model analysis of PWV and AZGP1 alone (Model A), AZGP1 together with eGFR (Model B) and AZGP1 together with eGFR, age, sex, blood pressure, and calcium-phosphorus product during the follow up of 2 years after transplantation.

Mixed Model analysis of PWV
Variable	Model A			Model B			Model C
	Estimate	SE	P-value	Estimate	SE	P-value	Estimate	SE	P-value
Intercept	7.3891	0.2638	<0.0001	8.1501	0.3528	<0.0001	1.9669	0.8467	0.0210
Time since Tx (days)	0.000594	0.000447	0.1851	0.000769	0.000443	0.0838	0.000721	0.000337	0.0334*
AZGP1 (μg/ml)	−0.00316	0.002357	0.1807	−0.00811	0.002790	0.0040**	−0.01031	0.002792	0.0003***
eGFR (ml/min/1.73 m2)				−0.01879	0.005908	0.0016**	−0.00874	0.004827	0.0805
Age (years)							0.05682	0.005190	<0.0001***
Sex (male vs. female)							0.1016	0.1627	0.5329
Systolic BP (mmHg)							0.02116	0.004499	<0.0001***
Ca*PO4 product							0.2169	0.09065	0.0175*

BP, Blood pressure; Ca*PO4, Calcium phosphorus product; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; PWV, Pulse wave velocity; Tx, Transplantation; SE, Standard error.

^*P < 0.05,

^**P < 0.01,

^***P < 0.001.

Variables with P < 0.05 are in bold.