Table 4.

Multivariable logistic regression for risk of macro and microvascular vascular 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)	1.51 (1.15–1.97)	1.30 (1.03–1.65)	0.89 (0.65–1.46)	1.10 (0.87–1.40)	1.05 (0.74–1.49)	0.98 (0.78–1.24)	1.19 (0.83–1.72)
Q3 (8.69 ≤ TyG index < 9.08)	1.66 (1.25–2.20)	1.48 (1.15–1.91)	0.94 (0.57–1.57)	1.22 (0.94–1.57)	1.01 (0.71–1.45)	1.13 (0.88–1.44)	1.24 (0.85–1.81)
Q4 (9.08 ≤ TyG index ≤ 11.63)	1.86 (1.37–2.53)	1.39 (1.05–1.84)	0.91 (0.52–1.60)	0.93 (0.71–1.23)	1.11 (0.75–1.63)	1.61 (1.22–2.13)	1.67 (1.10–2.50)
P for tread	< 0.001	0.02	0.83	0.81	0.66	< 0.001	0.02

Adjusted for age, sex, BMI, WC, smoking habit, hypertension, family history of premature CVD, diabetes, HDL-C, LDL-C, insulin and statin therapy

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, BMI body mass index, WC waist circumference, CVD cardiovascular disease, HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein cholesterol