Arterial Stiffness in Nonhypertensive Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Ghana

Table 2

Multiple regression analysis between patients’ characteristics versus PWVao and CAVI.

	PWVao		CAVI
All subjects
Diabetes status	0.22	0.02	0.21	0.029
Age	0.36	<0.001	0.38	<0.001
Gender	0.48	<0.001	0.04	0.692
log BMI	0.13	0.185	0.20	0.033
log WHR	0.06	0.538	0.17	0.067
log height	0.16	0.092	0.05	0.577
log systolic BP	0.21	0.005	−0.08	0.309
log heart rate	0.05	0.549	0.18	0.026
Previous smoking	0.25	0.001	0.20	0.008
Alcohol intake	0.01	0.894	0.02	0.759
HbA1c	0.01	0.922	0.24	0.007
log total cholesterol	−0.04	0.659	0.20	0.014
log triglycerides	0.01	0.985	0.03	0.76
log HDL	0.01	0.974	−0.19	0.014
T2DM patients
Age	0.25	0.024	2.82	0.006
Diabetes duration	0.27	0.01	4.29	<0.001
Gender	0.37	0.006	−1.46	0.148
log BMI	0.16	0.216	0.31	0.759
log WHR	0.06	0.62	1.16	0.251
log height	−0.01	0.947	−0.84	0.404
log systolic BP	0.34	0.003	1.37	0.176
log heart rate	0.04	0.7	1.52	0.134
Previous smoking	0.23	0.027	0.66	0.512
Alcohol intake	0.20	0.043	1.44	0.155
HbA1c	−0.10	0.424	1.92	0.058
log total cholesterol	−0.01	0.906	3.15	0.002
log triglycerides	−0.02	0.888	−0.74	0.464
log HDL	0.01	0.902	1.48	0.144
Controls
Age	0.42	0.012	2.98	0.005
Gender	0.74	0.006	0.12	0.906
log BMI	0.37	0.099	1.70	0.098
log WHR	0.16	0.423	2.50	0.017
log height	0.34	0.074	0.92	0.363
log systolic BP	0.03	0.886	2.60	0.013
log heart rate	0.28	0.217	2.15	0.038
Previous smoking	0.19	0.21	4.10	<0.001
Alcohol intake	−0.16	0.295	0.57	0.575
HbA1c	0.30	0.109	1.18	0.244
log total cholesterol	0.08	0.625	1.30	0.201
log triglycerides	−0.11	0.591	1.05	0.302
log HDL	−0.08	0.59	−1.43	0.001