Table 2.

Univariate and multiple stepwise linear regression analysis of risk factors associated with CIMT

	Univariate		Stepwise
	r	p value	β ± SE	p value
Age (years)	0.3848	< 0.0001	0.0039 ± 0.0003	< 0.0001
Sex (male = 1, female = 2)	−0.2379	< 0.0001	−0.0594 ± 0.0062	< 0.0001
SBP (mmHg)	0.3079	< 0.0001	0.0015 ± 0.0002	< 0.0001
DBP (mmHg)	0.0732	< 0.0001	−0.0014 ± 0.0003	< 0.0001
HbA1c (%)	0.2083	< 0.0001	0.1774 ± 0.0317	< 0.0001
FPG (mmol/L)	0.1472	< 0.0001	—	—
2 h PG (mmol/L)	0.1977	< 0.0001	—	—
HOMA-IR	0.1216	< 0.0001	—	—
TC (mmol/L)	0.0394	0.0220	—	—
TG (mmol/L)	0.0485	0.0047	—	—
LDL-C (mmol/L)	0.1148	< 0.0001	0.0220 ± 0.0035	< 0.0001
HDL-C (mmol/L)	−0.0974	< 0.0001	—	—
WHtR	0.1974	< 0.0001	0.1810 ± 0.0418	< 0.0001
BMI (kg/m2)	0.1051	< 0.0001	—	—

r, correlation coefficient; β, regression coefficient; SE, standard error.