Does the internal jugular vein affect the elasticity of the common carotid artery?

Table 4 Multiple regression analysis for arterial stiffness parameters (pooled data for right and left CCA)

	β R² = 0.1054 p = 0.005		DC R² = 0.0855 p = 0.005		CS [%] R² = 0.1196 p = 0.002		CSR [1/s] R² = 0.2445 p < 0.001
	Beta	p	Beta	p	Beta	p	Beta	p
Age [years]	0.154	0.0006	−0.001	0.0008	−0.053	0.0000	−0.011	0.0000
BMI [kg/m²]	0.137	0.0903	−0.001	0.1793	−0.036	0.0934	−0.007	0.0487
SBP	−0.002	0.9170	0.000	0.0897	0.009	0.0455	0.002	0.0213
Angle of adherence	−0.012	0.2695	0.000	0.1775	0.004	0.2177	0.000	0.7683
Area of the RIJV	0.004	0.6777	0.000	0.2857	0.001	0.6520	0.000	0.7618

RCCA right common carotid artery, LCCA left common carotid artery, RIJV right internal jugular vein, LIJV left internal jugular vein, β β-stiffness index, DC distensibility coefficient, CS circumferential strain, CSr circumferential strain rate, BMI body mass index, SBP systolic blood pressure, Beta regression coefficient, p – value
p-value presented in bold style is significant (<0.05)

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