Arterial Stiffness in Nonhypertensive Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Ghana

Table 3

Multiple regression analysis between patients’ characteristics versus haPWV and augmentation index.

	haPWV		AIx
	All subjects
Diabetes status	−0.11	0.246	0.21	0.037
Age	0.42	<0.001	0.14	0.018
Gender	−0.22	0.03	0.20	0.017
log BMI	0.29	0.003	0.01	0.94
log WHR	0.19	0.044	−0.01	0.911
log height	−0.09	0.315	−0.44	<0.001
log systolic BP	0.09	0.217	0.14	0.018
log heart rate	0.20	0.014	−0.51	<0.001
Previous smoking	0.14	0.059	−0.03	0.581
Alcohol intake	0.27	<0.001	0.04	0.439
HbA1c	0.26	0.004	0.16	0.026
log total cholesterol	0.17	0.039	0.07	0.282
log triglycerides	0.16	0.057	0.04	0.504
log HDL	−0.28	<0.001	0.04	0.469
T2DM patients
Age	0.26	0.002	0.03	0.717
Diabetes duration	0.45	<0.001	−0.02	0.787
Gender	−0.25	0.02	0.12	0.252
BMI	0.12	0.274	0.05	0.609
WHR	0.28	0.004	−0.01	0.909
Height	−0.16	0.092	−0.5	<0.001
Systolic BP	0.41	<0.001	0.2	0.031
Heart rate	0.17	0.037	−0.61	<0.001
Previous smoking	0.11	0.191	−0.05	0.555
Alcohol intake	0.17	0.026	0.09	0.262
HbA1c	0.2	0.017	0.29	0.001
log total cholesterol	0.12	0.153	0.11	0.212
log triglycerides	0.04	0.71	0.08	0.364
log HDL	0.16	0.064	0.17	0.04
Controls
Age	0.29	0.007	0.46	<0.001
Gender	−0.09	0.603	0.17	0.304
BMI	0.31	0.052	0.10	0.453
WHR	0.24	0.111	0.27	0.037
Height	0.06	0.623	−0.58	<0.001
Systolic BP	−0.12	0.231	−0.05	0.678
Heart rate	0.01	0.93	−0.01	0.936
Previous smoking	−0.06	0.622	−0.13	0.158
Alcohol intake	0.36	0.001	−0.19	0.044
HbA1c	0.30	0.009	0.14	0.242
log total cholesterol	0.28	0.007	0.18	0.077
log triglycerides	0.01	0.996	−0.02	0.846
log HDL	−0.35	0.003	−0.20	0.031