FBL and atherosclerosis: In addition, our findings are persuasive and easy to be accepted due to the fact that we also included important covariates including well-established atherosclerosis risk factors such as age, sex, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, and smoking; various blood lipid profiles, blood pressure, and glucose level; and kinds of serum index, for example, Hcy, Fib, CRP, and different leukocyte subtypes all that can reflect the systemic inflammatory information of the body to a variable extent.