Table 2.

Correlation of ankle–brachial index with various clinico-laboratory parameters among the studied children with T1DM

	Ankle–brachial index
	r	P value
Age (years)	− 0.188	0.192
Diabetes duration (years)	0.450**	0.001
Weight z-score	0.199	0.165
Height z-score	0.324*	0.022
BMI z-score	0.064	0.660
Insulin dosage (IU/kg/day)	0.318*	0.024
Cholesterol (mg/dl)	0.336*	0.017
HDL (mg/dl)	− 0.280*	0.049
LDL (mg/dl)	0.441**	0.001
Triglycerides (mg/dl)	0.005	0.975
HbA1C%	0.129	0.374

Bold values indicates significant values

T1DM type 1 diabetes mellitus; BMI body mass index; HbA1C glycated hemoglobin; LDL low-density lipoproteins; HDL high-density lipoproteins

Spearman correlation coefficients, P < 0.05: significant