Association of the Cardioankle Vascular Index and Ankle-Brachial Index with Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness in Hemodialysis Patients

Table 5

Multivariate regression analysis of clinical variables associated with CA-IMT in all patients, patients with ABI ≥ 0.95, and patients with ABI ≥ 0.9.

	CA-IMT
Variables	All patients (𝑛=264)			Patients (ABI ≥ 0.95) (𝑛=188)			Patients (ABI ≥ 0.9) (𝑛=213)
	𝛽	𝑡	𝑃	𝛽	𝑡	𝑃	𝛽	𝑡	𝑃
Age	0.45	9.10	<0.001	0.46	7.74	<0.001	0.45	7.81	<0.001
HbA1c	0.21	4.42	<0.001	0.21	3.71	<0.001	0.21	3.90	<0.001
CAVI	0.12	2.51	0.01	0.18	2.98	0.003	0.13	2.29	0.02
ABI	−0.27	−5.33	<0.001	−0.18	−3.17	0.002	−0.20	−3.57	<0.001
𝑅^2	0.46			0.42			0.42

Abbreviations used in this table are the same as in Table 1.