Figure 2. Logarithmic transformed urinary albumin to creatinine ratio in patients grouped according to the presence of either metabolic syndrome, low brachial flow-mediated vasodilation (≤2.1%, corresponding to the 25^th percentile among patients with normal urinary albumin to creatinine ratio) levels or both the conditions.

*p < 0.001; ^#p = 0.004; ^§p = 0.011. Lg, logarithmic transformed; UACR, urinary albumin to creatinine ratio; MS, metabolic syndrome; bFMD, brachial flow-mediated vasodilation.