Table 3.

Linear correlation analysis of serum TMAO with clinical characteristics in T2DM patients.

Variables	TMAO
	r	P
Age (year)	0.326	0.001b
Male	−0.047	0.626
BMI (kg/m²)	−0.117	0.229
Diabetes duration (year)	0.242	0.012a
BUN (mmol/L)	0.423	0.000c
UA (μmol/L)	0.181	0.061
FPG (mmol/L)	0.038	0.693
HbA1c (%)	0.065	0.507
SCR (μmol/L)	0.407	0.000c
eGFR (mL/min/1.73m²)	−0.445	0.000c
ACR (mg/g)	0.231	0.016a
Hypertension (%)	0.000	1.000
DKD (%)	0.293	0.002b

^aP < 0.05, ^bP < 0.01, ^cP < 0.001.