Table 3.

Correlation coefficients of age-adjusted N-acetyl-glucosaminidase with classical risk factors in T2D patients and control subjects

	Total		Case subjects		Control subjects
	Correlation coefficient	P	Correlation coefficient	P	Correlation coefficient	P
Sex	−0.063	0.009*	−0.075	0.025*	−0.058	0.096
Smoking	0.063	0.023*	0.067	0.088	0.051	0.200
Exercise	−0.074	0.008*	−0.093	0.017*	−0.066	0.096
BMI	−0.023	0.413	−0.110	0.005*	0.001	0.984
SBP	0.084	0.003*	0.047	0.231	0.003	0.941
DBP	0.086	0.002*	0.025	0.517	0.096	0.017*
Glucose	0.275	<0.001*	0.235	<0.001*	0.164	<0.001*
Urea	0.100	<0.001*	0.064	0.103	0.089	0.026*
Creatinine	0.089	0.001*	0.095	0.015*	0.073	0.067
UA	0.038	0.175	0.049	0.210	0.032	0.431
TC	−0.022	0.434	0.008	0.847	−0.027	0.504
TGs	−0.068	0.014*	−0.119	0.002*	−0.073	0.068
HDL cholesterol	0.057	0.040*	0.142	<0.001*	0.045	0.263
LDL cholesterol	0.045	0.111	0.046	0.239	0.046	0.252
CRP	0.062	0.025*	0.097	0.013*	0.033	0.404
Stathmin	0.166	<0.001*	0.139	<0.001*	0.196	<0.001*
EF-1α	0.043	0.128	−0.024	0.542	0.121	0.002*
Terminal restriction fragment	−0.066	0.019*	0.014	0.717	−0.087	0.029*

Stathmin, EF-1α, and N-acetyl-glucosaminidase are serological markers for telomere dysfunction and DNA damage. *P < 0.05.