Severity of Osteoarthritis Is Associated with Increased Arterial Stiffness
Table 4
(a) Multiple regression analysis with cf-PWV as the dependent variable for the hip OA patients (adjusted , ). (b) Multiple regression analysis with cf-PWV as the dependent variable for the knee OA patients (adjusted , ).
(a)
Variable
Std error
Beta
value
Constant
−8.487
2.445
−3.471
0.001
OA grade
0.739
0.332
0.219
2.228
0.033
Age
0.125
0.029
0.422
4.302
<0.001
MAP
0.079
0.016
0.477
4.880
<0.001
hs-CRP
−0.433
0.170
−0.246
−2.543
0.016
(b)
Variable
Std error
Beta
value
Constant
−10.450
5.357
−1.951
0.062
Age
0.164
0.047
0.556
3.492
0.002
W/H-ratio
11.326
5.345
0.344
2.119
0.044
OA grade
−0.227
0.695
−0.055
−0.327
0.746
OA: osteoarthritis, MAP: mean arterial pressure, hs-CRP: high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and W/H-ratio: waist-to-hip ratio.
