Carotid atherosclerosis in a sample of Egyptian patients with or without ischemic vascular events

Table 4 Factors related to the occurrence of carotid atherosclerosis in the binary logistic regression models

Characteristic	Univariate regression analysis			Multivariate regression analysis
Characteristic	OR	95% CI	P	OR	95% CI	P
Age > 60 years	3.45	2.19–5.44	< 0.001*	3.33	1.99–5.57	< 0.001*
Male sex	1.08	0.7–1.68	0.72	0.58	0.3–1.14	0.11
Hypertension	3.52	2.16–5.72	< 0.001*	2.3	1.32–4.02	0.003*
Diabetes mellitus	2.74	1.75–4.3	< 0.001*	2.15	1.27–3.64	0.004*
Current smoking	1.37	0.87–2.17	0.17	2.27	1.13–4.55	0.02*
Ischemic vascular events	2.48	1.51–4.09	< 0.001*	1.8	1.01–3.19	0.046*
H–L-Test^†						0.78

CI confidence interval, OR odds ratio
^*Statistically significant results
^†Hosmer–Lemeshow “goodness-of-fit" test for the multivariate regression analysis showed a non-significant p-value (p = 0.29) for the difference between our observed results and the expected results. The non-significant p-value for this test means better fit of the model (the higher the value, the better the fit)