Effects of metabolic syndrome on aortic pulse wave velocity

Clinical Hypertension

Table 3 Multivariate logistic regression analysis

Variable	Adjusted odds ratio	95% Confidence interval	p-value
PWV of the aorta	1.88	1.03–3.42	0.04
Ankle-brachial index	0.02	0.00–3.34	0.14
Augmentation index (%)	1.03	0.98–1.08	0.27
Subendocardial viability ratio (%)	0.99	0.96–1.03	0.69
Ejection duration (ms)	1.00	0.98–1.02	0.73
Framingham risk score	1.04	0.86–1.25	0.69
Right mean IMT	8.29	0.05–1332.23	0.42
Left mean IMT	2.08	0.02–276.36	0.77

Aortic PWV was an independent tool for predicting the probability of the presence of metabolic syndrome
PWV pulse wave velocity, IMT intima-media thickness

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