Cardiovascular Organ Damage in Clinical Subtypes of Systemic Sclerosis: Arterial Stiffness and Echocardiography Might Not Be the Ideal Tools for Patient Risk Stratification

Table 3

Multivariate regression analysis of cfPWV in SSc patients.

Variables	T value
Age	2.563	0.0154
BMI	1.237	0.2253
Disease duration	2.072	0.0467
SBP	1.056	0.2991
DBP	−1.277	0.2112
cSBP	0.388	0.7005
cDBP	2.005	0.0537
Clinical subtype	−0.637	0.5287
F 6.31 (<0.001), adjusted R^2 = 0.56

BMI: body mass index; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; MBP: mean blood pressure; cSBP: central systolic blood pressure; cDBP: central diastolic blood pressure; cfPWV: carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity.