Metabolic syndrome is not associated with reduction in aortic distensibility in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Table 2 Multivariate linear regression analysis: the association between various parameters with aortic distensibility in the study population.

	B	SE (B)	beta	p	Adjusted R²
Independent variables
Model 1
Age (1 year)	-0.004	0.002	-0.17	0.02
Sex (male vs. female)	0.046	0.026	0.12	0.08
Duration of diabetes (1 year)	-0.009	0.002	-0.36	<0.001
History of hypertension (yes vs. no)	-0.080	0.027	-0.20	0.004	0.34
Model 2
MetS status (yes vs. no)	-0.010	0.036	-0.019	0.78	0.33
Model 3
Sum of the components of the MetS	-0.015	0.013	-0.084	0.24	0.34
Model 4
High waist (yes vs. no)	-0.036	0.029	-0.09	0.21	0.33
Model 5
Low HDL cholesterol (yes vs. no)	-0.026	0.027	-0.09	0.33	0.33
Model 6
High triglycerides (yes vs. no)	-0.017	0.029	-0.04	0.55	0.33
Model 7
High blood pressure (yes vs. no)	-0.065	0.036	-0.13	0.07	0.34

Parentheses show the units of increment or the categories of the independent variables.
B: unstandardized regression coefficient; SE: standard error; beta: standardized regression coefficient; MetS: metabolic syndrome; HDL: high density lipoprotein. All models were adjusted in addition for glomerular filtration rate.

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