TABLE 2.

Spearman and partial correlation between non-insulin-based IR indices and CAVI.

Variables	CAVI
	Spearman correlation		Partial correlation
	r	p	r	p
TGı/HDL-C	0.189	<0.001	0.078	<0.001
TyG	0.223	<0.001	0.114	<0.001
METS-IR	0.139	<0.001	0.109	<0.001

TG, triglyceride; HDL-C, high density lipoprotein cholesterol; TyG, triglyceride and glucose index; METS-IR, metabolic score for insulin resistance; CAVI, cardio-ankle vascular index.

Age, sex, BMI, SBP, and DBP were controlled in partial correlation analysis.