Table 3.

Association between coronary atherosclerosis/coronary artery disease characteristics and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin and interleukin 6 in multivariable linear regression analyses.

Independent Variable* (each row shows one model)	Hs-cTn (log-transformed)			IL-6 (log-transformed)
	ß coefficient	95%CI	P value	ß coefficient	95%CI	P value
Any coronary plaque	0.04	−0.02, 0.09	0.173	0.02	−0.04, 0.07	0.572
Any high-risk plaque	0.09	0.01, 0.18	0.034	0.03	−0.01, 0.00	0.420
Positive remodeling	0.11	0.02, 0.20	0.016	0.01	−0–06, 0.08	0.750
Low CT attenuation	0.18	0.02, 0.34	0.025	0.13	0.00, 0.25	0.043
Napkin-ring sign	0.08	−0.10, 0.26	0.373	−0.08	−0.18, 0.01	0.085
Any stenosis ≥70% or LM ≥50%	0.22	0.08, 0.36	0.002	0.17	0.05, 0.29	0.005
Any stenosis ≥50%	0.13	0.04, 0.22	0.006	0.07	0.00, 0.14	0.062
CADRADS categories	0.04	0.01, 0.06	0.004	0.04	0.01, 0.06	0.001
CAC score (log-transformed)	0.01	0.00, 0.03	0.050	0.01	0.00, 0.02	0.132
SIS	0.02	0.00, 0.03	0.008	0.01	0.00, 0.02	0.083
Leaman Score	0.01	0.00, 0.01	0.019	0.00	0.00 ,0.01	0.205

^*Adjusted for age, gender, ASCVD risk score (coefficients not shown)