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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetes. 2003 Oct;52(10):2623–2629. doi: 10.2337/diabetes.52.10.2623

TABLE 2.

Follow-up results of subjects with and without a family history of type 2 diabetes

Conventional therapy
Intensive therapy
No family history Family history P No family history Family history P
n 532 54 - 521 61 -
BMI (kg/m2) 25.1 ± 3.1 25.4 ± 3.1 0.57 26.4 ± 4.3 27.8 ± 3.9 0.002
HbA1c (%) 9.2 ± 1.5 9.3 ± 1.4 0.46 7.2 ± 1.0 7.4 ± 1.3 0.21
Insulin dose (units · kg-1 · day-1) 0.62 ± 0.17 0.61 ± 0.17 0.20 0.66 ± 0.21 0.73 ± 0.21 0.03
Triglyceride (mmol/l) 0.96 ± 0.58 (0.03) 0.98 ± 0.53 (0.18) 0.23 0.86 ± 0.47 (-0.02)* 1.04 ± 0.64 (0.01) 0.02
Total cholesterol (mmol/l) 4.76 ± 0.91 (0.10) 4.94 ± 0.93 (0.18) 0.03 4.60 ± 0.78 (-0.01) 4.81 ± 0.78 (0.13) <0.05
LDL cholesterol (mmol/l) 2.97 ± 0.81 (0.14) 3.18 ± 0.82 (0.08) 0.02 2.88 ± 0.69 (-0.007) 3.06 ± 0.67 (0.18)§ 0.02
HDL cholesterol (mmol/l) 1.34 ± 0.34 (0.08) 1.29 ± 0.36 (0.08) 0.29 1.34 ± 0.34 (-0.02) 1.29 ± 0.31 (0.05) 0.20
Apolipoprotein B (g/l) 0.85 ± 0.22 0.91 ± 0.24 0.01 0.82 ± 0.19 0.90 ± 0.33 0.03
Systolic BP (mmHg) 116 ± 14 116 ± 10 0.65 116 ± 13 116 ± 11 0.62
Diastolic BP (mmHg) 75 ± 9.5 74 ± 8.9 0.55 74 ± 9.3 74 ± 8.2 0.75
Natural waist circumference (cm) 82.1 ± 9.4 84.8 ± 10.5 0.08 83.7 ± 10.9 87.9 ± 12.4 0.01
Natural WHR 0.82 ± 0.08 0.84 ± 0.07 0.10 0.82 ± 0.09 0.84 ± 0.11 0.04

Data are means ± SD. Data in parentheses represent change from baseline. P represents comparison of no family history versus family history.

*

P = 0.03

P < 0.001

P = 0.01

§

P < 0.01 vs. baseline. BP, blood pressure