Age-Related Differences in the Association between Plasma High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Noncalcified or Mixed Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaques

Table 5

Regression analysis to assess the presence of NCP/MP according to hsCRP^a.

Variables	years		years
	OR (95% CI)		OR (95% CI)
Presence of atherosclerosis plaques
hsCRP	1.074 (0.999–1.155)	0.053	1.032 (0.921–1.032)	0.588
hsCRP tertiles
Tertile 1	1		1
Tertile 2	0.574 (0.339–0.972)	0.039	0.483 (0.186–1.251)	0.134
Tertile 3	0.970 (0.556–1.693)	0.915	1.133 (0.287–3.321)	0.819
The presence of CP
hsCRP	1.032 (0.975–1.093)	0.279	0.932 (0.882–0.986)	0.014
hsCRP tertiles
Tertile 1	1		1
Tertile 2	0.650 (0.393–1.077)	0.094	0.445 (0.269–0.736)	0.002
Tertile 3	1.059 (0.645–1.738)	0.821	0.416 (0.250–0.692)	0.001
Presence of NCP/MP
hsCRP	1.018 (0.961–1.078)	0.538	1.091 (1.031–1.154)	0.002
hsCRP tertiles
Tertile 1	1		1
Tertile 2	0.944 (0.593–1.503)	0.809	2.110 (1.235–3.605)	0.006
Tertile 3	0.889 (0.553–1.430)	0.629	2.805 (1.639–4.802)	<0.001

Abbreviations: hsCRP—high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; CR—control; CP—calcified plaque; NCP—noncalcified plaque; MP—mixed plaque. ^aAdjusted for age, sex, BMI, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, smoking, statin, aspirin, and ARB/ACEI.