CHI3L1 and type 1 diabetes mellitus: The prevalence of subclinical CAD was low in our cohort of asymptomatic T1D patients and we did not find association between YKL-40 levels and any cardiovascular surrogate, neither CACS nor CIMT, either when these variables were evaluated as continuous or categorical variables, thus suggesting that YKL-40 elevation is more a marker of increased inflammation in T1D patients, rather than one indicating subclinical disease.