Cardiovascular Diabetology

Table 3 Unadjusted association with score

From: Metabolic syndrome predicts vascular changes in whole body magnetic resonance imaging in patients with long standing diabetes mellitus

	p-value
Age^a	0.0002
Sex^b	0.1082
Diabetes duration^a	0.9434
Hypertension^b	0.0008
Systolic BP^a	0.2233
Diastolic BP^a	0.731
LDL-cholesterol^a	0.2951
HDL-cholesterol^a	0.016
Triglycerides^a	0.0535
BMI^a	0.826
HbA1c^a	0.4529
MetS^b	0.0011
Creatinine^a	0.0601
CHD^b	0.0001
Retinopathy^b	0.0689
Neuropathy^b	0.6291
Nephropathy^b	0.0093

BP: blood pressure; CHD: coronary heart disease; MetS: metabolic syndrome; ^a p-value refers to correlation coefficient; ^b p-value refers to Wilcoxon test;

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