Clinical and dietary predictors of common carotid artery intima media thickness in a population with type 1 and type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional study

Table 2 Predictors of mean and mean maximum common carotid artery intima media thickness in univariate analysis and stepwise linear regression

Predictor	Mean CCA IMT	Mean maximum CCA IMT	Mean CCA IMT			Mean maximum CCA IMT
	r	r	β	t	P	β	t	P
Age	0.661	0.651	0.006	10.8	0.0001	0.006	10.5	0.001
Sex	-0.13	-0.143	-			-
Type of diabetes	0.431	0.411	-			-
Years since diabetes diagnosis	0.08	0.09	-			-
Smoking pack years	0.192	0.192	-			-
Weight	0.163	0.163	0.001	2.4	0.017	0.001	2.3	0.02
BMI	0.182	0.182	-			-
Systolic blood pressure	0.261	0.271	-			-
Diastolic blood pressure	-0.01	-0.006	-			-
Heart rate	-0.241	-0.231	-			-
Pulse pressure	0.291	0.291	-			-
Anti-hypertension medication prescription	-0.341	-0.321	-			-
Lipid lowering medication prescription	-0.301	-0.301	-			-
Total cholesterol	-0.001	-0.001	-			-
LDL cholesterol	-0.007	-0.02	-			-
HDL cholesterol	-0.182	-0.172	-			-
Triglycerides	0.13	0.143	-			-
Fasting glucose	0.03	0.03	-			-
HbA1c	-0.04	-0.04	-			-
Microalbuminuria	0.153	0.153	-			-
Summarised r2 model			0.46			0.44

¹P < 0.01;

²P < 0.05;

³P < 0.1. HDL: High-density lipoprotein; LDL: Low-density lipoprotein; CRP: C reactive protein; HbA1c: Haemoglobin A1c; CCA IMT: Common carotid artery intima media thickness; BMI: Body mass index.