. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 18.

Published in final edited form as: Clin Chim Acta. 2009 May 22;406(0):71–74. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2009.05.015

Table 2.

Biochemical Values in Diabetes and Control Subjects

Variable	Male⁺		Female⁺
	Diabetes (n = 297)	Controls (n = 401)	Diabetes (n = 319)	Controls (n = 494)
Total Cholesterol (mmol/l)	4.58 (0.98)	4.99 (40.0)^*	5.05 (1.09)	5.23 (1.05)^*
Triglycerides (mmol/l)	2.13 (1.60)	1.50 (105.2)^*	1.66 (0.87)	1.15 (0.64)^*
HDL-C (mmol/l)	1.15 (0.34)	1.32 (15.5)^*	1.38 (0.44)	1.64 (0.42)^*
TC/HDL-C Ratio	4.2 (1.6)	3.9 (1.4)^*	3.8 (1.5)	3.2 (1.7)^*
Non-HDL-C (mmol/l)	3.51 (0.66)	3.82 (31.5)^*	3.74 (0.65)	3.59 (0.84)
Calculated LDL-C (mmol/l)⁺	2.64 (0.86)	3.05 (34.5)^*	2.95 (0.97)	3.08 (0.96)
Direct LDL-C (mmol/l)	2.67 (0.83)	3.11 (33.8)^*	2.98 (0.93)	3.16 (0.93)^**
Insulin (pmol/l)	180 (170)	85 (60)^*	200 (290)	90 (90)^*
Glycosylated Hemoglobin (%)	7.6 (1.7)	5.5 (0.5)^*	7.8 (1.6)	5.5 (0.5)^*
Glycated Albumin (%)	19.9 (5.4)	13.2 (1.4)^*	18.9 (5.5)	13.5 (1.5)^*

⁺

30 male patients with diabetes (8.5%) and 9 male controls (2.2%) of the original sample could not have their LDL-C calculated because of fasting triglycerides > 4.5 mmol/l (400mg/dl), and these were excluded from this analysis. For female this percentage was 3.8% in diabetes versus 0.4% in controls. Data are provided as mean values (standard deviations).

p<0.001 for the difference between diabetes and controls within each gender

^**

p<0.01 for the difference between diabetes and controls within each gender