Renal function had an independent relationship with coronary artery calcification in Chinese elderly men

BMC Geriatrics

Table 3 Relationship of coronary artery calcium scores with renal function and other variables in multivariate linear regression analysis

Characteristics	Agatston score		Volume score		Mass score
Characteristics	β value	p value	β value	p value	β value	p value
Age (year)	0.115	0.344	0.104	0.390	0.109	0.366
BMI (kg/m²)	0.150	0.193	0.151	0.189	0.116	0.312
CAD (%)	0.209	0.048	0.206	0.050	0.215	0.040
Hypertension (%)	0.002	0.985	0.008	0.944	0.003	0.978
MSBP (mmHg)	−0.007	0.958	0.006	0.962	−0.008	0.953
MDBP (mmHg)	0.010	0.935	0.032	0.795	0.013	0.917
Heart rate (bpm)	−0.139	0.167	−0.138	0.170	−0.154	0.125
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	0.038	0.728	0.021	0.845	0.033	0.758
HDL-c (mmol/L)	0.096	0.383	0.080	0.467	0.085	0.440
LDL-c (mmol/L)	−0.153	0.160	−0.157	0.147	−0.164	0.129
FBG (mmol/L)	0.040	0.693	0.054	0.590	0.060	0.555
Calcium (mmol/L)	−0.063	0.542	−0.040	0.701	−0.064	0.536
Phosphorus (mmol/L)	0.108	0.342	0.094	0.405	0.098	0.385
Uric acid (mmol/L)	−0.099	0.414	−0.106	0.382	−0.099	0.413
GFR (ml/min/1.73 m²)	−0.230	0.044	−0.228	0.045	−0.232	0.042

BMI Body mass index, CAD Coronary artery disease, MSBP Mean systolic blood pressure, MDBP mean diastolic blood pressure, HDL-c High density lipoprotein-cholesterol, LDL-c Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol, FBG Fasting blood glucose, GFR Glomerular filtration rate

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