. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Diabetes Complications. 2008 Apr 16;22(4):267–272. doi: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2007.06.010

Table 1.

General characteristics of the Study Groups

	Group I	Group II	Group III	Group IV	P value
Participants	51	56	47	58
Mean age, year	48.8 (9.4)	49.7 (13.5)	50.3 (14.4)	^*32.9 (14.9)	<0.0001
Age range, year	40–73	21–81	21–80	6–84
Female (%)	25 (49)	38 (68)	28 (60)	21 (36)
Duration of diabetes, years		9.1(7.6)	10.2 (10.5)		0.581

Group I: normals; Group II type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with urinary albumin:creatinine ratio (UACR) <0.03; Group III T2DM with UACR ≥ 0.03; Group IV: non-diabetic with UACR ≥ 0.03; data presented as mean (SD);

p<0.0001