Table 2.

Multivariate regression results of the factors affecting ultrasound scores.

	Inflammation Score		Damage Score		Total Score
	B (95% CI)	p	B (95% CI)	p	B (95% CI)	p
Variables
Intercept	−13.2 (−19.3 to −7.1)	< 0.001	−12.0 (−17.7 to −6.4)	< 0.001	−25.3 (−35.3 to −15.2)	< 0.001
Age	0.17 (0.10–0.23)	< 0.001	0.18 (0.13–0.24)	< 0.001	0.35 (0.25–0.46)	< 0.001
Sex (men vs women)	2.73 (0.78–4.68)	0.007	2.3 (0.49–4.1)	0.014	5.05 (1.82–8.28)	0.003
Smoking (ever vs never)	−0.046 (−2.0 to 1.97)	0.963	−0.10 (−1.9 to 1.7)	0.916	−0.14 (−3.46 to 3.16)	0.930
BMI	0.35 (0.13–0.57)	0.002	0.26 (0.05–0.46)	0.014	0.61 (0.24–0.97)	0.001
Physical activity (high vs low and moderate)	1.89 (−0.022 to 3.80)	0.053	2.5 (0.73–4.3)	0.006	4.41 (1.25–7.58)	0.007
	Observations: 76		Observations: 76		Observations: 76
	R²/adjusted R²: 0.500/0.465		R²/adjusted R²: 0.547/0.515		R²/adjusted R²: 0.599/0.571