Table 6.

Vascular stiffness parameters and study variables correlations among normal weight patients.

VRP	Variables	Spearman ρ	p-value
PWV	Age	0.84	< 0.001
	25-OH Vit. D	−0.78	< 0.001
	LDL-c	0.73	< 0.001
	WC	0.58	0.01
	Total Cholesterol	0.58	0.01
	Triglycerides	0.56	0.01
	TSH	0.55	0.02
	Weight	0.53	0.03
	HDL-c	0.53	0.02
	Trunk Fat	0.52	0.03
cSBP	Uric Acid	0.65	0.004
	WC	0.64	0.005
	Total Cholesterol	0.60	0.01
	HOMA-IR	0.59	0.01
	HDL-c	−0.51	0.03
	BMI	0.50	0.04
SBP	Total Cholesterol	0.61	0.009
	WC	0.59	0.01
	Uric Acid	0.58	0.01
	TSH	0.54	0.02
	BMI	0.51	0.03

BMI, Body Mass Index; WC, waist circumference; HOMA-IR, Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance; HDL-c, High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol; cSBP, Central Systolic Blood Pressure; PWV, Pulse Wave Velocity; LDL-c, Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol; TSH, Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone; Spearman ρ, Spearman correlation coefficient; p-value, Spearman correlation test. The bold values p < 0.05 indicates statistical significance.