IL6 and diabetes mellitus: The presence of AVC showed a positive correlation with age (rho = 0.52), presence of CVD (rho = 0.19), diabetes (rho = 0.24), smoking (rho = 0.13), beta-blocker (rho = 0.23) and statin (rho = 0.20) use, FRS (rho = 0.52), hsCRP (rho = 0.29), IL-6 (rho = 0.43), triglyceride (rho = 0.15), AGEs (rho = 0.25), AIx% (rho = 0.23) and CAC score (rho = 0.59), and a negative association with %HGS (rho = −0.34) and serum albumin (rho = −0.28) (Supplementary Materials Table S3).