Table 2.

Correlations between the IMA and clinical parameters in the diabetic subjects.

Parameters	non-PAD group		PAD group
	r	p-value	r	p-value
Age (years)	0.001	0.985	0.006	0.965
Ankle-brachial index	-0.012	0.405	-0.022	0.315
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	0.063	0.834	0.051	0.716
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	0.121	0.092	0.180	0.192
HbA1c (%)	0.082	0.081	0.220	0.030
Serum creatinine (µmol/L)	0.056	0.650	0.158	0.151
Serum uric acid (µmol/L)	0.118	0.227	0.208	0.127
Urine albumin (mg/L)	0.065	0.893	0.459	0.696
Serum albumin (g/L)	0.085	0.562	0.125	0.365
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	0.130	0.703	0.031	0.823
Triglycerides (mmol/L)	0.067	0.128	0.165	0.229
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (mmol/L)	0.013	0.340	0.053	0.701
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (mmol/L)	0.134	0.280	0.037	0.786
Homocysteine (µmol/L)	0.247	0.108	0.446	0.044