Cross-Sectional Relationship between Carotid-Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity and Biomarkers in Vascular-Related Diseases

Table 3

Pearson correlations between CFPWV and metabolic markers in each subgroup.

Characteristics	Healthy (N = 186)		Group 1 (N = 237)		Group 2 (N = 174)		Group 3 (N = 59)
	r		r		r		r
Age (year)	0.451	<0.001	0.327	<0.001	0.457	<0.001	0.392	0.002
BMI (kg/m^2)	−0.114	0.126	−0.059	0.370	−0.033	0.668	−0.228	0.083
RABI	−0.006	0.934	−0.063	0.337	−0.250	0.001	−0.315	0.015
LABI	0.069	0.349	−0.152	0.019	−0.386	<0.001	−0.239	0.069
SBP (mmHg)	0.357	<0.001	0.302	<0.001	0.476	<0.001	0.480	<0.001
DBP (mmHg)	0.122	0.098	0.166	0.011	0.224	0.003	0.003	0.983
Pulse pressure (mmHg)	0.439	<0.001	0.285	<0.001	0.448	<0.001	0.574	<0.001
FPG (mmol/L)	0.091	0.219	0.068	0.295	0.071	0.353	−0.031	0.818
UA (μmol/L)	0.017	0.816	0.286	<0.001	−0.156	0.041	−0.061	0.646
Creatinine (μmol/L)	0.171	0.021	0.165	0.011	0.190	0.012	0.103	0.440
TC (mmol/L)	0.077	0.296	−0.042	0.527	−0.066	0.388	0.048	0.719
HDL-C (mmol/L)	0.032	0.668	−0.077	0.240	0.052	0.496	0.239	0.071
LDL-C (mmol/L)	−0.029	0.696	−0.079	0.231	−0.038	0.621	−0.020	0.880
TG (mmol/L)	0.074	0.318	0.095	0.147	−0.187	0.014	0.001	0.994
HCY (μmol/L)	−0.034	0.650	0.143	0.033	0.045	0.571	−0.172	0.205
Log NT-proBNP	0.155	0.057	−0.004	0.959	0.224	0.011	0.193	0.175
Log UAE	0.068	0.376	−0.101	0.139	0.102	0.210	−0.181	0.181

Group 1, with one of the diseases of hypertension, CHD, and DM; group 2, with two of the diseases of hypertension, CHD, and DM; group 3: with all the diseases of hypertension, CHD, and DM; CHD, coronary heart disease; DM, diabetes mellitus; BMI, body mass index; CFPWV, carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity; RABI, right ankle brachial index; LABI, left ankle brachial index; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; FPG, fasting plasma glucose; UA, uric acid; TC, cholesterol; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG, triglycerides; HCY, homocysteine; UAE, urine albumin (microalbumin) excretion.