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Table 3 Univariate associations of c-IMT with cardiovascular risk factors

Variable	c-IMT		P value1
	mean ± SD (mm)	Rho
Gender			0.27
Male	0.81 ± 0.19
Female	0.78 ± 0.17
Age (yr)		0.45	< 0.001
BMI (kg/m2)		0.3	< 0.001
< 25	0.76 ± 0.18		0.02
25-30	0.82 ± 0.14
> 30	0.86 ± 0.22
Hypertension			< 0.001
Yes	0.88 ± 0.17
No	0.74 ± 0.17
Dyslipidemia			0.006
Yes	0.85 ± 0.18
No	0.77 ± 0.17
Diabetes			0.001
Yes	0.95 ± 0.21
No	0.78 ± 0.17
Smoking			0.03
Never	0.79 ± 0.18
1-20 pack-years	0.78 ± 0.18
> 20 pack-years	0.91 ± 0.19
VFT (mm)		0.21	0.01
SFT (mm)		0.08	0.32

Rho: Spearman’s correlation coefficient between continuous variables and c-IMT;

¹ANOVA (nominal data) or Spearman’s Rho (continuous data).