Fig 1.
Flowchart of study population.
Table 1.
Baseline clinical and metabolic characteristics of population group and groups with prediabetes.
Fig 2.
Prevalence of prediabetes in the general population with cardiovascular risk categories and the presence of atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid arteries.
Table 2.
Evaluation of the relationship of vascular early atherosclerotic parameters with anthropometric, metabolic and insulin resistance parameters.
Table 3.
Regression models performed for the whole study population.
The dependent variable was the presence of atherosclerotic plaques. Well-known cardiovascular risk factors were replaced by cardiovascular risk categories.