Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

Table 3 Regression analyses of various variables for prediction of rheumatoid arthritis disease activity

From: Galectin-3 and its correlation with carotid ultrasound in rheumatoid arthritis patients

	Univariate analysis				Multivariate analysis
	ẞ	p-value	95% CI of ẞ		ẞ	p-value	95% CI of ẞ
Age	0.02	0.043*	0.000	0.031	0.01	0.600	−0.021	0.035
Sex	0.14	0.452	−0.229	0.500
Galectin-3	0.07	0.006*	0.023	0.123	0.03	0.533	−0.056	0.105
Disease duration	0.02	0.049*	0.000	0.053	0.01	0.469	−0.023	0.048
NTJ	0.09	0.001*	0.041	0.140	0.06	0.094	−0.010	0.119
NSJ	0.17	0.004*	0.059	0.289	0.06	0.400	−0.087	0.211
ESR	0.006	0.066	0.000	0.012
Rt CIMT	0.51	0.112	−0.126	1.135
Lt CIMT	0.78	0.020*	0.132	1.430	0.09	0.869	−1.134	0.965

NTJ number of tender joints, NSJ number of swollen joints, ESR erythrocyte sedimentation rate, RT right, LT left, CIMT carotid intima-media thickness

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