The six factors (history of hypertension, history of diabetes mellitus, a body temperature of >37.5°C and P-selectin levels on days 1, 3 and 7) in the aortic atherosclerosis progressive and non-progressive groups which had significant differences were the independent variables and progression (≥50%) or non-progression of atherosclerotic stenosis was the dependent variable used to carry out binary logistic regression analysis. Here, SELP is linked to Hypertension.