Table 1. Patient characteristics (means ± SD) of the PREDICTIONS cohort.

	n	M/F	Age [year]	Duration DM [yr]	SBP [mmHg]	DBP [mmHg]	UAE [mg/L]	CrCl [ml/min/1.73 m2]
cases	64	44/20	64±10	17±8	143±21	78±12	953±931	72±40
controls	81	47/34	62±11	16±6	133±15	74±11	6±4	94±32

M/F: male/female ratio; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; UAE: urinary albumin excretion; CrCl: creatinine clearance estimated by Cockroft-Gault equation.