AIP and atherosclerosis: First of all, studying classical risk factors for atherosclerosis, IMT was predicted only by LDL among the metabolic parameters, i.e., hepatic insulin resistance, HOMA, LDL, HDL, AIP, triglyceride/HDL, with coefficient 0.0001, β = 0.25, t = 2.58, P = 0.011, R2 = 0.06.