Table 1.

Characteristics of the accepted studies and correlation of post prandial glucose level with CIMT.

		Number of persons studied					Correlation coefficient
		Glucose category				Glucose	Pearson's r
Author	Year	normal	impaired	diabetic	Total	Groups*	(95% CI)
Faeh[1]	2007	776	150	184	1,110	3	0.075 (0.017-0.133)
Henry[2]	2004	278	168	301	747	3	0.094 (0.022-0.164)
Hunt[3]	2003	1,127	66	303	1,496	3	0.124 (0.074-0.174)
Ishizaka[4]	2003	738	334	166	1,238	3	0.056 (0-0.164)
Mohan[5]	2006	1,600	330	1,500	3,430	4	0.086 (0.053-0.119)
O'Leary[6]	1992	2,576	1,427	1,161	5,164	3	0.069 (0.042-0.096)
Niskanen[7]	1996	98	21	84	203	3	0.104 (-0.034-0.238)
Rajala[8]	2002	57	97	54	208	3	0.085 (-0.051-0.218)
Temelkova[9]	2000	265	82	88	435	4	0.180 (0.088-0.270)
Tuomilehto[10]	1998	100	25	44	169	3	-0.020 (-0.169-0.131)
Wagenknecht[11]	1998	635	313	444	1,392	4	0.077 (0.024-0.129)
Overall		8,250	3,013	4,329	15,592		0.082 (0.066-0.098)

*Indicates the number of glucose categories reported. In the Temelkova study, four groups were reported; however, only three were used for the analysis