Increased aortic intima-media thickness may be used to detect macrovascular complications in adult type II diabetes mellitus patients

Table 3 The parameters associated with A-IMT and linear regression analysis for parameters significantly correlated with A-IMT

A-IMT	Correlation analyze		Regression analyses
A-IMT	p	r	p	β
C-IMT (mm)	< 0.001	0.896	–	–
Age (year)	< 0.001	0.237	0.081	0.216
Office systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	0.044	0.177	0.201	0.106
DM diagnosis time (years)	< 0.001	0.450	0.001	0.353
Hemoglobin (mg/dL)	0.018	- 0.167	< 0.001	- 0.406
Glukoz (mg/dL)	0.012	0.174	0.756	0.064
HbA1c (%)	0.003	0.202	0.014	0.247
Blood urea nitrogen (mg/dL)	0.003	0.205	0.209	0.141

DM Diabetes mellitus, IMT Intima-media thickness * \( {R}_{Adjusted}^2=0.382 \) and C-IMT was excluded in linear regression analyses

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