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Table 3.

Interaction with exercise effect on carotid intima-media thickness

	p value
Gender	1.00
Etnicity (Caucasian)	0.99
Age (>64)^a	0.97
BMI (>29 kg/m²)^a	0.20
Previous myocardial infarction	0.70
Presence of carotid plaques^b	0.013
Years of known diabetes (>9)^a	0.20
Microvascular complications^c	0.71
LDL (>2.0 mmol/L)^a	0.21
HbA1c (>7.4 %)^a	0.28

BMI body mass index, LDL low density lipoprotein cholesterol

p value for interaction calculated by two-way ANCOVA

^aMedian value

^bDetected by scanning of the common carotid artery and the carotid bulb region during ultrasonography

^cDefined as known diabetes microvascular complications, albuminuria (including micro-) and/or positive monofilament test at baseline