Table 3.

Univariate logistic regression for risk of macro and microvascular damage according to the quartiles of the TyG index

	cf-PWV > 10 m/s	Ba-PWV > 1800 cm/s	Carotid hypertrophy	Carotid plaque	ABI < 0.9	MAU	CKD
Q1 (7.04 ≤ TyG index < 8.36)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Q2 (8.36 ≤ TyG index < 8.69)	1.57 (1.24–1.99)	1.40 (1.13–1.73)	1.08 (0.68–1.73)	1.10 (0.88–1.36)	1.21 (0.88–1.67)	1.06 (0.86–1.31)	1.02 (0.76–1.35)
Q3 (8.69 ≤ TyG index < 9.08)	1.76 (1.39–2.22)	1.52 (1.23–1.88)	1.21 (0.77–1.91)	1.26 (1.01–1.57)	1.36 (0.99–1.86)	1.13 (0.91–1.39)	1.12 (0.85–1.48)
Q4 (9.08 ≤ TyG index ≤ 11.63)	2.48 (1.97–3.13)	1.76 (1.43–2.18)	1.27 (0.81–1.99)	1.12 (0.90–1.39)	1.77 (1.31–2.40)	1.7 0(1.27–2.12)	1.41 (1.07–1.84)
P for tread	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.26	0.17	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.01

TyG triglyceride glucose, cf-PWV carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, ba-PWV brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity, ABI ankle–brachial index, MAU microalbuminuria, CKD chronic kidney disease