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. 2024 May 11;20(3):54. doi: 10.1007/s11306-024-02127-w

Table 2.

Statistically significant urine metabolites that describe the variance in the metabolome between the healthy control and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes cohorts

Metabolites Healthy control Poorly controlled type 2 diabetes Healthy control vs. Poorly controlled type 2 diabetes
Average concentration ± Standard deviation
(mmol/mol creatinine)
Glass’s σ effect size
(≥ 0.5)
FDR-adjusted
p-value
(≤ 0.05)

α-Hydroxybutyric acid

(HMDB0000008)

1.45 ± 0.14 1.68 ± 0.33 1.61 1.33 × 10− 3

β-Hydroxybutyric acid

(HMDB0000011)

0.46 ± 0.45 1.20 ± 0.49 1.65 3.94 × 10− 4

β-Hydroxyisobutyric acid

(HMDB0000023)

1.10 ± 0.29 1.51 ± 0.19 1.38 4.27 × 10− 5

β-Hydroxyisovaleric acid

(HMDB0000754)

1.13 ± 0.12 1.28 ± 0.14 1.31 2.71 × 10− 3

ρ-Hydroxyphenylacetate

(HMDB0060390)

1.32 ± 0.31 1.55 ± 0.19 0.71 2.17 × 10− 2

Acetoacetic acid

(HMDB0000060)

1.45 ± 0.11 1.70 ± 0.18 2.32 3.71 × 10− 5

Alanine

(HMDB0000161)

1.68 ± 0.12 1.98 ± 0.14 2.57 7.98 × 10− 7

Choline

(HMDB0000097)

0.93 ± 0.37 1.35 ± 0.13 1.15 4.52 × 10− 6

Citric acid

(HMDB0000094)

2.35 ± 0.38 2.71 ± 0.17 0.95 6.35 × 10− 4

Dimethylglycine

(HMDB0000092)

1.00 ± 0.16 1.18 ± 0.09 1.15 1.63 × 10− 4

Fumaric acid

(HMDB0000134)

3 × 10− 3 ± 0.48 0.55 ± 0.24 1.14 2.00 × 10− 4

Glucose

(HMDB0000122)

0.92 ± 0.21 3.81 ± 0.57 13.75 1.62 × 10− 7

Isoleucine

(HMDB0000172)

0.69 ± 0.08 0.85 ± 0.10 2.01 4.27 × 10− 5

Lactic acid

(HMDB0000190)

1.81 ± 0.37 2.20 ± 0.32 1.05 2.71 × 10− 3

Leucine

(HMDB0000687)

1.37 ± 0.19 1.63 ± 0.12 1.36 2.20 × 10− 6

Lysine

(HMDB0000182)

2.10 ± 0.23 2.25 ± 0.26 0.64 1.75 × 10− 3

Mannose

(HMDB0000169)

0.18 ± 0.24 1.56 ± 0.52 5.70 4.56 × 10− 7

Myo- inositol

(HMDB0000211)

< 0.001 2.37 ± 0.28 1.4 × 1015 1.62 × 10− 7

N-acetylglucosamine

(HMDB0000215)

1.72 ± 0.07 1.80 ± 0.05 1.06 2.37 × 10− 3

Pyroglutamate

(HMDB0000267)

2.44 ± 0.10 2.51 ± 0.10 0.74 1.78 × 10− 2

Pyruvic acid

(HMDB0000243)

1.11 ± 0.19 1.33 ± 0.18 1.17 3.75 × 10− 4

Sucrose

(HMDB0000258)

1.15 ± 0.43 1.77 ± 0.54 1.50 1.78 × 10− 4

Tryptophan

(HMDB0000929)

1.00 ± 0.53 1.50 ± 0.44 0.95 5.29 × 10− 3

Tyrosine

(HMDB0000158)

1.10 ± 0.33 1.41 ± 0.08 0.95 1.55 × 10− 5

Valine

(HMDB0000883)

0.64 ± 0.40 1.16 ± 0.10 1.29 5.41 × 10− 6

HMDB, The human metabolomics database