Association between daily glucose fluctuation and coronary plaque properties in patients receiving adequate lipid-lowering therapy assessed by continuous glucose monitoring and optical coherence tomography

Table 3 Pearson correlation coefficients, association between OCT measurements and markers of diabetic control and nonglycemic metabolic variables

	MAGE	Mean BG	Time in hyperglycemia	Time in hypoglycemia	HbA1c	DM duration	LDL cholesterol	HDL cholesterol	TG	CRP
Lipid length	0.369**	0.292**	0.349**	0.071	0.173*	0.193*	−0.065	−0.044	0.019	−0.061
Lipid mean arc	0.615**	0.324**	0.397**	0.232**	0.330**	0.268**	0.173	−0.017	−0.018	0.286**
Lipid index	0.541**	0.340**	0.405**	0.149	0.268*	0.257**	0.043	−0.053	0.037	0.068
Fibrous cap thickness	−0.430**	−0.105	−0.192**	−0.316**	−0.097	−0.046	−0.039	0.113	0.041	−0.149
Calcification length	0.099	0.065	0.149	0.132	−0.105	0.102	0.171	0.094	−0.053	0.026
Calcification mean arc	0.154	0.236*	0.253*	0.040	−0.022	0.184	0.159	0.081	−0.029	−0.171
Calcification index	0.101	0.099	0.166*	0.085	−0.047	0.227**	−0.005	0.143	−0.034	−0.108

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.001. BG: blood glucose; CRP, C-reactive protein; DM: diabetes mellitus; HbA1c: glycated hemoglobin; HDL cholesterol: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL cholesterol: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; MAGE: mean amplitude of glycemic excursion

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