Coronary inflammation based on pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation in type 2 diabetic mellitus: effect of diabetes management

Table 5 Multivariate stepwise linear regression for the association between factors and PCAT attenuation

	LAD-PCAT		LCX-PCAT		RCA-PCAT
	β coefficient (95% CI)	P	β coefficient (95% CI)	P	β coefficient (95% CI)	P
Sex			1.954 (0.399–3.509)	0.014	2.54 (0.808–4.271)	0.004
Duration of T2DM	0.230 (0.105–0.355)	< 0.001	0.114 (0.001–0.227)	0.048
Metformin	− 2.476 (− 5.101 – − 1.852)	0.021			− 1.89 (− 3.637 – − 0.143)	0.034
Acarbose	− 1.841 (− 3.508 – − 0.174)	0.031
Tube voltage of CT acquisition	0.351 (0.282–0.42)	< 0.001	0.352 (0.282–0.422)	< 0.001	0.327 (0.25–0.403)	< 0.001

PCAT Pericoronary adipose tissue, LAD left anterior descending artery, LCX left circumflex artery, RCA right coronary artery, CI confidence interval

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