Flow mediated vasodilation compared with carotid intima media thickness in the evaluation of early cardiovascular damage in menopausal women and the influence of biological and psychosocial factors

Table 3 Factors associated with Flow-mediated dilatation

Dependent variable: Log FMD MODEL I (Adjusted R² = 0.14)	Beta±S.E.	t	p	P after Bonferroni correction
Age	−0.30 ± 0.07	- 4.21	< 0.001	< 0.001
Submission score	−0.19 ± 0.07	- 2.75	0.006	0.078
MODEL II* (Adjusted R²: 0.12) Excluding age from candidate regressors
Submission score	−0.19 ± 0.07	- 2.69	0.008	0.069
HDL-Cholesterol	−0.18 ± 0.07	- 2.59	0.010	0.093
Non HDL-Cholesterol	−0.16 ± 0.07	- 2.35	0.019	0.171
Body mass index	−0.17 ± 0.07	- 2.29	0.023	0.207

SE (standard error); FMD (Flow-mediated dilatation); Non high-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol (Non HDL- Cholesterol), high-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-Cholesterol), p < 0.05

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