Carotid IMT correlated positively with lipodystrophy evaluated by FMR, age, waist/hip ratio, neck circumference, trunk fat mass evaluated by DXA, visceral obesity defined by total abdominal fat, VAT and VAT/SAT ratio, systolic blood pressure, glucose at 0 and 120 minutes on OGTT, A1c, non-HDL cholesterol, uric acid, CRP, hsCRP and homocysteine. This evidence concerns the gene CRP and lipodystrophy.