Table 3.

Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for triglyceride–glucose (TyG) and carotid plaque in the high-stroke-risk population.

TyG quartiles
Model	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	p-value
1	Reference	1.74 (1.22–2.50)*	1.41 (0.99–2.01)	1.23(0.87–1.75)	0.021*
2	Reference	1.77 (1.23–2.54)*	1.42 (1.00–2.04)*	1.24 (0.87–1.76)	0.017*
3	Reference	1.79 (1.24–2.58)*	1.41 (0.99–2.02)	1.23 (0.86–1.76)	0.016*
4	Reference	1.85 (1.28–2.67)*	1.51 (1.05–2.18)*	1.29 (0.90–1.84)	0.010*
5	Reference	1.99 (1.28–3.09)*	1.51 (1.02–2.25)*	1.25 (0.87–1.81)	0.021*

Model 1: crude model; model 2: adjusted for age and sex; model 3: adjusted for age, sex, smoking, drinking, and physical inactivity; model 4: adjusted for age, sex, smoking, drinking, physical inactivity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation/valvular heart disease, dyslipidemia, personal history of stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA), and family history of stroke; model 5: adjusted for gender, family history of hypertension, family history of diabetes, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), weight, waist circumference, body mass index (BMI), fasting blood glucose (FBG), hemoglobin A1c, triglyceride, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and homocysteine. *p<0.05.