Early atherosclerosis in normotensive patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: the relation between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and carotid intima-media thickness

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Table 2 Multivariate linear regression analysis for factors predicting EATT

	Univariate correlation		Multivariate linear regression
	r	p	OR	p
Age	0.41	<0.001	0.35 ([− 0.02] to [0.71])	0.06
ADPKD	0.417	<0.001	10.2 ([2.53] to [17.86])	0.01
GFR	−0.316	0.001	−0.17 ([− 0.39] to [0.04])	0.11
BMI	0.29	0.002	0.87 ([− 0.2] to [1.94])	0.11
Systolic BP	0.21	0.034	0.15 ([− 0.21] to [0.51])	0.4
hs-CRP	0.512	<0.001	54.7 ([37.44] to [72.01])	<0.001
Uric acid	0.477	<0.001	0.05 ([− 2.85] to [2.96])	0.9
LDL-C	0.216	0.027	−0.01 ([− 0.13] to [0.11])	0.8

Dependent variable: epicardial adipose tissue thickness (EATT)
ADPKD autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, BMI body mass index, BP blood pressure, GFR glomerular filtration rate, hs-CRP high sensitive C-reactive protein, LDL low density lipoprotein
The results in italics identify the statistically significant values