Variables R p value Standardized β regression coefficients p value
Age, years 0.339 <0.001 0.053 0.184
Hypertension 0.170 0.001 0.003 0.927
Diabetes 0.492 <0.001 0.107 0.031
SYNTAX score 0.692 <0.001 0.661 <0.001
Ejection fraction, % -0.126 0.011 0.003 0.943
Creatinine, mg/dl 0.416 <0.001 -0.056 0.228
Hs-CRP, mg/dl 0.293 <0.001 -0.066 0.116
Glucose, mg/dl 0.184 <0.001 -0.043 0.276
Oral anti-diabetic use 0.441 <0.001 -0.045 0.263
SYNTAX; the Synergy between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery, HsCRP; high sensitive C reactive protein.
The natural log transformation of SYNTAX score and hsCRP was used in bivariate analysis and in the linear regression model.
Table 2: Bivariate and multivariate associations of high sensitive troponin T