Table 6.

Predictors of microangiopathy in multivariate logistic regression analysis with microangiopathy presence as dependent variable and age, hypertension, HbA_1c, WHR, TC and FT3 as independent variables (p < 0.0001)

Predictors	Odds ratio (95% confidence interwal)	p-value
Age	1.07 (1.04–1.11)	<0.0001
Hypertension	2.69 (1.34–5.39)	0.005
HbA1c	1.24 (1.01–1.53)	0.04
WHR	7.20 (0.33–158.38)	0.21
TC	1.25 (0.93–1.67)	0.14
FT3	0.51 (0.27–0.98)	0.04

Predictors were chosen based on presented in Table 2 baseline characteristics. Following predictors were taken into account: age, T1D duration, hypertension, WHR, HbA_1c, ALT, AST, TC, TG, eGFR and FT3. Age was chosen arbitrally and subsequently T1D duration was excluded as closely related to patients' age. ALT and AST were not inserted into the analysis because they are different between group with microvascular complications vs. group without microvascular complications as an effect of diabetic hepatopathy. Lower eGFR in a group with microvascular complications is not a risk factor of microvascular complications but is an effect of diabetic kidney disease. TC was chosen and TG subsequently was excluded because these covariates are closely interrelated

Bold p-values are statistically significant (a p-value less than 0.05)

Abbreviations: see Table 2