Abstract
80% had hypertension, 90% had dyslipidemia and 15% had chronic kidney disease. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that PCSK9 was independently associated with VRI in patients with acceptable glycemic control (β= -0.001, p=0.028, r2= 0.136) after adjustment for other independent variables such as age, gender, BMI, dyslipidemia, duration of diabetes, total cholesterol, LDLc, HDLc, creatinine, and triglycerides.