Carotid artery volumetric measures associate with clinical ten-year cardiovascular (CV) risk scores and individual traditional CV risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis; a carotid-MRI feasibility study

Table 4 The association between carotid wall variables in patients with RA and 10-year cardiovascular risk scores (adjusted as per 2010 and 2017 EULAR guidelines)

Variable	Adjusted 10-year Framingham cardiovascular risk score						Adjusted 10-year Joint British Societies 2 cardiovascular risk score
	2010 EULAR guidelines			2017 EULAR guidelines			2010 EULAR guidelines			2017 EULAR guidelines
	Rho	95% CI	P value	Rho	95% CI	P value	Rho	95% CI	P value	Rho	95% CI	P value
Mean wall thickness	0.10	−0.16, 0.34	0.451	0.10	− 0.15, 0.35	0.426	0.09	−0.17, 0.33	0.514	0.09	−0.07, 0.33	0.517
Minimum wall thickness	0.12	−0.14, 0.36	0.368	0.13	−0.13, 0.37	0.335	0.13	−0.13, 0.37	0.322	0.13	−0.12, 0.37	0.309
Maximum wall thickness	0.06	−0.19, 0.31	0.622	0.05	−0.20, 0.30	0.684	0.04	−0.21, 0.29	0.734	0.03	−0.23, 0.28	0.848
Wall volume^a	0.38	0.13, 0.58	0.004	0.34	0.09, 0.53	0.009	0.37	0.12, 0.58	0.005	0.33	0.08, 0.54	0.012
Luminal volume^a	0.43	0.19, 0.62	0.001	0.35	0.10, 0.56	0.007	0.43	0.19, 0.62	0.001	0.35	0.10, 0.56	0.008
Wall volume indexed^a	− 0.22	−0.46, 0.04	0.094	−0.17	− 0.42, 0.09	0.198	− 0.23	−0.46, 0.04	0.088	−0.19	− 0.43, 0.08	0.167
Wall volume indexed/BSA	−0.24	−0.47, 0.02	0.068	−0.21	− 0.45, 0.05	0.117	− 0.26	−0.48, 0.01	0.055	−0.23	− 0.46, 0.04	0.093

Number of observations = 61 unless otherwise stated. CI (confidence intervals) are of the correlation coefficient
RA rheumatoid arthritis, Rho Spearman correlation coefficient, EULAR European League Against Rheumatism, BSA body surface area
^aNumber of observations = 57

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