Assessment of the Relationship between Carotid Intima-Media Thickening and Early-Stage Diabetic Kidney Disease Coupled with Helicobacter pylori Infection

Table 2

Results of a stepwise regression analysis with the use of CIMT as the dependent variable and the related covariates as independent variables.

Independent variable	Nonstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients
		Standard error
Constant	0.353	0.020	17.735	<0.001
ApoB	0.309	0.016	0.738	18.900	<0.001
UACR	0.001	<0.001	0.308	9.377	<0.001
IL-6	0.002	0.001	0.097	2.481	0.014