CRP and atherosclerosis: To evaluate whether the 4 marker miRNAs independently related with atherosclerosis presence assessed with the other cardiovascular markers, we performed logistic regression analysis of the 4 miRNAs (miR-212, -372, -454, and -744), and all clinical (age, body mass index, and history of hypertension) and laboratory (HbA1c, fasting glucose, triglyceride, total cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C, apolipoprotein A and B, lipoprotein(a), hs-CRP, and homocysteine) cardiovascular risk markers tested in the present study (Table 1).