Association between Circulating Endothelial Cells and Carotid Atherosclerosis in Patients Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis

Table 3

Association of CCA-IMT with CECs level, age, dialysis vintage, and modality of dialysis adjusted for confounding effects in multiple linear regressions.

	Variable	Beta	95% CI		𝑡 value	𝑃 value
			Lower	Upper
CCA-IMT	CECs	0.461	0.001	0.003	3.684	0.001
	Gender	−0.245	−0.331	−0.022	−2.287	0.026
	Age	0.385	0.004	0.017	3.391	0.001
	Dialysis vintage	−0.035	−0.002	0.002	−0.299	0.766
	Primary disease	0.028	−0.049	0.063	0.256	0.799
	Systolic blood pressure	−0.067	−0.006	0.003	−0.606	0.547
	Body mass index	−0.133	−0.041	0.013	−1.056	0.295

Note: Gender: female 1, male 0; primary disease: chronic glomerulonephritis 1, interstitial nephropathy 2, diabetic nephropathy 3, hypertensive nephrosclerosis 4, and others 5.