Are Any Changes in Carotid Intima–Media Thickness Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Among Adult Bantu Central African Hypertensive Patients from Monkole and Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospitals?

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Table 1 Bivariate Correlations Between the Explanatory Variables and the Variations of the CIMT in the Study Population

Explanatory Variables	Change in CIMT	P
	r-value
Age (years)	−0.029	0.629
Number of children	0.163	0.006
MV duration (year)	0.432	< 0.0001
SBP (mm Hg)	0.230	< 0.0001
DBP (mmHg)	0.053	0.381
PPP (mmHg)	0.232	< 0.0001
Pulse (beats/min)	0.138	0.021
Weight (Kg)	0.278	< 0.0001
TT (cm)	0.278	< 0.0001
TH (cm)	0.289	< 0.0001
Fasting blood glucose (mg/dl)	0.439	< 0.0001
24h proteinuria (g/24h)	0.444	< 0.0001
Albumin/Creatinine (mg/gr)	0.503	< 0.0001
PCR (mg%)	0.533	< 0.0001
TC (mg/dl)	0.190	< 0.0001
HDL-c (mg/dl)	−0.006	0.919
LDL-c (mg/dl)	0.209	< 0.0001
TG (mg/dl)	0.209	< 0.0001
BMI (%)	0.089	0.137
TG/HDL-c	0.212	< 0.0001
TT/T	0.235	< 0.0001
Cut	0.107	0.073

Figure 1 Draws the histogram of the distribution of the CIMT according to the standardized (A) and reproducible regression (B) corresponds to the expected cumulative probability of variations in the CIMT (C).

Table 2 Multiple Linear Regression of Variables Predicting Variations in the CIMT

Variables	B	Standard Error	P	CI
PCR (mg%)	0.87	0.014	< 0.0001	[0.055–0.110]
24h proteinuria (g/24h)	0.002	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	[0.001–0.003]
Albumin/Creatinine (mg/gr)	0.005	0.002	< 0.0001	[0.012–0.503]
Duration of hypertension (year)	0.015	0.004	< 0.0001	[0.008–0.022]
Radial pulse (beat/min)	0.001	< 0.0001	0.008	[0.000–0.002]
TH (cm)	0.006	0.002	0.014	[0.001–0.011]
Number of children	0.017	0.008	0.037	[0.001–0.033]

Figure 2 Corresponds to the expected cumulative probability of variations in the CIMT. Figures draw the different regression lines showing the number of children (A), the duration in years of hypertension (B), the radial pulse (C), the Hip circumference (D), the 24-hour proteinuria (E), the urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (F), and the significant multivariate correlations between the CIMT and the CRP (G).