Predictive abilities of cardiovascular biomarkers to rapid decline of renal function in Chinese community-dwelling population: a 5-year prospective analysis

Table 2 Predictive abilities of cardiovascular biomarkers to renal function decline rate in simple correlation and linear regression analyses

Characteristics	r	P-value	β	P-value
Age (year)	0.057	0.078	0.180	<0.001
Men (%)	0.124	<0.001	0.142	<0.001
BMI (kg/m²)	0.049	0.132	0.020	0.481
SBP (mmHg)	0.015	0.640	−0.026	0.517
DBP (mmHg)	−0.001	0.973	0.009	0.799
CAD (%)	0.060	0.067	0.017	0.526
Hypertension (%)	0.057	0.077	0.062	0.070
Diabetes (%)	0.128	<0.001	−0.008	0.821
cfPWV (m/s)	−0.002	0.939	−0.023	0.476
cAIx (%)	0.071	0.029	<0.001	0.998
TG (mmol/L)	0.040	0.224	−0.033	0.244
HDL-c (mmol/L)	−0.038	0.238	−0.038	0.211
LDL-c (mmol/L)	0.045	0.165	0.016	0.554
FBG (mmol/L)	−0.037	0.251	0.028	0.503
PBG (mmol/L)	0.109	0.001	0.052	0.271
Homocysteine (μmol/L)	0.116	<0.001	0.158	<0.001
NT-proBNP (pg/ml)	0.081	0.013	0.088	0.001
Hs-cTnT (pg/ml)	0.044	0.179	0.014	0.599
Baseline GFR (mL/min/1.73m²)	0.480	<0.001	0.620	<0.001

Abbreviations: BMI: body mass index; cAIx: central augmentation index; CAD: coronary artery disease; cfPWV: carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; FBG: fasting blood glucose; GFR: glomerular filtration rate; HDL-c: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; hs-cTnT: high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T; LDL-c: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; NT-proBNP: N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide; PBG: postprandial blood glucose; SBP: systolic blood pressure; TG: triglyceride

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