Association between Obesity and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Korean Office Workers: The Mediating Effect of Physical Activity

Table 6

Multivariate linear regression for predicting carotid-intima media thickness.

Variables		95% CI	P value
Age	0.399	0.004 0.005	<0.001
Sex	-0.045	-0.024 0.005	0.002
BMI	0.233	0.004 0.012	<0.001
WHtR	-0.046	-0.340 0.130	0.380
Hypertension	0.084	0.008 0.047	0.014
Smoking	0.101	-0.043 -0.011	0.054
Physical activity	-0.086	-0.014 -0.002	0.011

BMI: body mass index, WHtR: waist-to-height ratio, and smoking: past and current smokers.
Regression model F-value=54.438, adjusted R²=0.274, and P-value=0.001.