APOA1 and diabetes mellitus: To address multicollinearity, with CHD incidence as the dependent variable, thestatistically significant indicators in Table 1—gender (male), smoking history,drinking history, hypertension and diabetes status, CTI, BMI, fasting bloodglucose, glycated hemoglobin A1c, hemoglobin, white blood cell count, neutrophilcount, lymphocyte count, monocyte count, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein,low-density lipoprotein, lipoprotein (a), apolipoprotein A1, albumin, and uricacid as independent variables in a Lasso regression analysis.