Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Display Increased Carotid Intima Media: A Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Metaregressions statistics for evaluated confounding factors.

Confounding factors	Slope	Intercept	P value
Age	0.059	−1.89	0.0001
Gender	0.010	0.331	0.015
BMI	0.016	0.653	0.39
AHI	0.012	0.642	0.0004
LDLc	0.016	−1.055	0.077
HDLc	−0.04	3.319	0.0004
Systolic BP	0.001	0.971	0.883