Femoral artery plaque: A simple ultrasound clue for severe coronary stenosis

Table 4 Parameters estimators for the statistic model where Gensini > 41 as a dependent variable and femoral atherosclerosis ≥ 70% as an independent variable were adjusted for other risk factors using binomial regression analysis

Independent variables	B	SE	Hypothesis test			95% Wald CI
			Wald χ2	df	Sig.	Lower	Upper
Sex	1.19	0.05	5.72	1	0.017	1.24	8.79
Age	-0.06	0.02	80.51	1	0.004	0.90	0.97
Smoking status1	-0.13	0.24	0.31	1	0.57	0.53	10.41
DM type 2	-0.13	0.46	0.08	1	0.77	0.34	20.18
Body mass index	0.01	0.05	0.10	1	0.75	0.91	10.13
Waist circumference	-0.01	0.02	0.47	1	0.49	0.94	10.02
Systolic blood pressure	-0.01	0.01	10.13	1	0.28	0.94	10.01
Diastolic blood pressure	0.01	0.02	0.13	1	0.71	0.95	10.07
Statin treatment at enrollment	-1.42	0.41	11.76	1	0.001	0.11	0.54
Femoral atherosclerosis ≥ 70%	-1.42	0.53	4.99	1	0.025	0.11	0.86

¹Smoking status: 0: Never smoked; 1: Smoking in the past; 2: Present smoker.

df: Degrees of freedom; Sig: Significance; CI: Confidence interval.