Ultrasound Assessment of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: Comparison between Diabetes and Nondiabetes Subjects, and Correlation with Serum Vitamin D

Table 5

Unadjusted and adjusted mean of (CIMT) according to diabetes mellitus status.

Model	Diabetes mellitus		value
	No	Yes
Crude	0.74 ± 0.23	1.07 ± 0.25	0.001
Model I	0.74 ± 0.08	1.07 ± 0.015	0.001
Model II	0.73 ± 0.17	1.05 ± 0.12	0.001

Model I. Adjusted for age. Model II. Further adjusted for sex, BMI, physical activity, smoking, and vitamin D. values were obtained using the independent t-test.