Association of the Cardioankle Vascular Index and Ankle-Brachial Index with Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness in Hemodialysis Patients

Table 4

Spearman’s correlation of CA-IMT with clinical markers in all patients, patients with and without diabetes and ABI more or less than 0.95.

Variables	CA-IMT
	All patients (𝑛=264)		Patients with type 2; diabetes (𝑛=132)		Patients without type 2; diabetes (𝑛=132)		Patients (ABI ≥ 0.95); (𝑛=188)		Patients (ABI < 0.95); (𝑛=76)
	𝑟	𝑃	𝑟	𝑃	𝑟	𝑃	𝑟	𝑃	𝑟	𝑃
Age	0.56	<0.001	0.37	<0.001	0.6700	<0.001	0.56	<0.001	0.35	0.002
Serum albumin	−0.17	0.01	−0.01	0.94	−0.26	0.002	−0.22	0.003	−0.01	0.91
FPG	0.31	<0.001	0.01	0.28	0.11	0.20	0.29	<0.001	0.1	0.40
HbA1c	0.29	<0.001	0.02	0.82	0.03	0.74	0.31	<0.001	0.06	0.64
CRP	0.21	0.001	0.05	0.56	0.13	0.14	0.25	0.001	−0.01	0.93
CAVI	0.25	<0.001	0.10	0.28	0.22	0.01	0.39	<0.001	0.01	0.91
ABI	−0.45	<0.001	−0.35	<0.001	−0.46	<0.001	−0.23	0.002	−0.22	0.05

Abbreviations used in this table are the same as in Table 1.