Table 3.

Correlation between copeptin with demographics, laboratory data, anthropometric data and image study of diabetic patients

Variables	Copeptin
	r	P-value
Demographic data
Age of diabetic patients (yrs)	0.32	0.01
Duration of diabetes (yrs)	0.11	0.39
Onset of disease (yrs)	0.23	0.07
Insulin dose (u/kg)	0.04	0.75
Blood pressure (mmHg)
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	0.02	0.85
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	0.06	0.65
Anthropometric data
Midarm circumference (mm)	0.18	0.17
Body mass index (kg/m2)	0.12	0.37
Waist/ hip ratio	0.13	0.32
Waist/height ratio	0.17	0.18
Laboratory data
HbA1c (%)	0.02	0.87
Albumin/ creatinine ratio (μg/ g creatinine)	0.05	0.78
Total cholesterol (mg/dl)	0.10	0.47
Triglyceride (mg/dl)	0.14	0.30
HDL-c (mg/dl)	0.08	0.57
LDL-c (mg/dl)	0.03	0.82
OxLDL (mg/dl)	0.06	0.62
Image study
carotid intimal medial thickness(mm)	0.40	0.0001
Aortic intimal medial thickness (mm)	0.86	0.0001
Resistivity index	0.11	0.40

HbA1c: Glycosylated haemoglobin; HDL-c: High-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-c: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; OxLDL: Oxidized low-density lipoprotein.