Table 3.

Baseline correlations of brachial artery measures (n = 184).

	BA IMT		BA GSM		BA entropy		BA GLDS-CON
	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value
Age	0.25	0.001	−0.07	0.349	0.25	0.001	0.04	0.566
Body mass index	0.08	0.272	−0.19	0.009	0.02	0.804	−0.12	0.108
Heart rate	−0.10	0.162	0.11	0.134	−0.12	0.104	0.01	0.942
Systolic blood pressure	0.18	0.016	−0.11	0.145	0.20	0.006	0.17	0.024
Diastolic blood pressure	−0.01	0.875	0.01	0.926	−0.01	0.866	0.04	0.563
Ankle–brachial index	0.03	0.715	−0.04	0.582	−0.02	0.767	0.03	0.698
6-minute walk distance	−0.09	0.253	0.14	0.068	−0.02	0.815	0.11	0.125
Total treadmill time	−0.09	0.205	0.02	0.753	−0.05	0.487	0.12	0.118
BA FMD	−0.18	0.013	0.03	0.669	−0.11	0.122	−0.09	0.233
BA diameter	0.48	< 0.0001	−0.18	0.016	0.39	< 0.0001	0.20	0.006
BA resting blood flow	0.26	< 0.0001	−0.17	0.021	0.23	0.002	0.14	0.051
BA IMT			−0.26	< 0.0001	0.55	< 0.0001	0.18	0.014
BA GSM					−0.06	0.400	0.22	0.002
BA entropy							0.63	< 0.0001

Bold type represents p-value <0.05.

BA, brachial artery; FMD, flow-mediated vasodilation; GLDS-CON, gray-level difference statistic-contrast; GSM, grayscale median; IMT, intima–media thickness.