Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Distributions of the Ankle-Brachial Index among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Table 4

Univariate analysis of relationships between ABI and characteristics of subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Variables	Men		Women
	𝑟	𝑃 value	𝑟	𝑃 value
Age (yrs)	0.164	0.001	0.22	<0.001
BMI (kg/m^2)	−0.296	0.001	0.178	<0.001
SBP (mmHg)	−0.247	0.001	−0.145	<0.002
DBP (mmHg)	−0.171	0.001	−0.102	<0.029
baPWV (cm/sec)	0.181	0.001	0.027	0.563
Duration (yrs)	0.065	0.091	0.050	0.280

baPWV: Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity; BMI: Body mass index; SBP: Systolic blood pressure; DBP: Diastolic blood pressure; duration: since diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus.