Table 2.

Soluble RAGE and surrogate markers of atherosclerosis

	Baseline			5 year follow-up
	Diabetes	Controls	p value	Diabetes	Controls	p value
sRAGE (pg/ml)	1664 (602)	1773 (574)	0.100	1578 (589)	1585 (561)	0.909
esRAGE (ng/ml)	0.36 (0.16)	0.42 (0.16)	<0.001	0.33 (0.21)	0.33 (0.13)	0.810
cIMT (mm)	0.45 (0.05)	0.44 (0.04)	0.067	0.51 (0.05)	0.51 (0.06)	0.324
Young’s modulus (kPa)	13.7 (2.8)	13.4 (2.5)	0.207	18.7 (2.8)	18.7 (2.9)	0.895
CRP (mg/l)a	0.50 (0.27, 1.84)	0.31 (0.19, 0.67)	<0.001	1.16 (0.43, 3.64)	0.69 (0.28, 2.00)	0.002

Mean values (SD)

^aMedian (25th and 75th percentile)