Table 4.

Multiple regression models among 71 patients with early RA who had IMT after 5 years of followup as dependent variable.

Characteristics	Model 1			Model 2
Characteristics	β	95% CI	p	β	95% CI	p
Age, yrs	0.05	0.005–0.1	0.03	0.81	−0.02–0.2	0.1
Smoking ever, yrs	−0.004	−0.03–0.03	0.8	−0.02	−0.08–0.04	0.4
Systolic BP, T0, mmHg	0.2	−0.01–0.6	0.2	0.09	0.01–0.2	0.03
Triglycerides, T0, mmol/l⁻¹	0.8	−0.08–1.7	0.07	0.4	−1.1–1.8	0.6
Cholesterol, T0, mmol/l⁻¹	0.05	−0.3–0.4	0.8	−0.7	−1.4–0.02	0.05
HDL, T0, mmol/l⁻¹	0.5	−0.4–1.5	0.3	1.8	−0.2–3.7	0.07
AUC DAS28, 60 mos			—	−0.001	−0.01–0.01	0.9

Adjusted R² for Model 1 = 0.30. Adjusted R² for Model 2 = 0.71. RA: rheumatoid arthritis; IMT: intima-media thickness; BP: blood pressure; HDL: high-density lipoproteins; AUC: area under the curve; DAS28: 28-joint Disease Activity Score.