Do patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes really have an impaired endothelial function? A population-based propensity score matching analysis

Table 3 Multivariable linear regression analysis in volunteers with type 2 diabetes and non-diabetic matched controls with respect to FMD

	FMD
N = 430	β-coefficients	SE	p-value
Type 2 diabetes	0.107	0.340	0.752
Age, years	-0.072	0.014	<0.001
Sex, male	-1.418	0.328	<0.001
Current smoking	-0.040	0.450	0.930
Body mass index, kg/m²	-0.038	0.035	0.282
Hypertension	0.373	0.366	0.308
Use of antihypertensive medication	-0.423	0.374	0.259
HDL cholesterol, mmol/l	-0.118	0.467	0.801
LDL cholesterol, mmol/l	-0.088	0.172	0.609

FMD, flow-mediated dilatation; HDL, high-density-lipoprotein; LDL, low-density-lipoprotein.

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