borderline significancep = 0.055
Vegetable intake correlated positively with nitrate (r = 0.38, p = 0.018, Figure 2 ), inversely with HOMA-IR (r = −0.45, p = 0.005) and CRP (r = −0.61, p < 0.001) and showed an inverse association, with borderline significance versus leukocyte counts (r = −0.31, p = 0.055).