Association between different obesity indicators and carotid intima-media thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Objective To explore the relationship between different obesity indicators and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Methods A total of 1 762 T2DM patients who visited the Endocrinology Department of Changzhou Second People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University and the Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from January2019 to February 2022 were enrolled in this study.