Table 2.

Results of the various variables in each group.

Variable	Week	Paricalcitol (N = 23)	P value	Placebo (N = 23)	P value
Hemoglobin A1c (%)	0	7.4, 5.2–9.4	0.28	7.3, 5.8–10.6	0.36
	12	7.2, 5.9–11.1		7.5, 5.7–10.2
F M dilation (%)	0	3.4, −10.1–17.9	0.73	2.4, −30.1–21.3	0.85
	12	3.3, −7.5–14.4		3.6, −3.4–17.1
N G dilation (%)	0	7.8, 0.9–30.3	0.18	9.7, −1.7–33.3	0.36
	12	4.2, 0.3–24.3		9.8, −2.5–30.0
Microalbumin/Cr (μg/mg)	0	41.0, 1.9–1806	0.35	83.3, 1.3–7713.9	0.60
	12	69.1, 1.7–8405		56.1, 1.7–8332.0
Urinary Isoprostane/Cr (ng/ml)	0	2.5, 0.7–6.3	0.17	1.8, 0.3–5.0	0.70
	12	2.0, 0.8–5.2		2.3, 0.4–5.5
FFA (mM)	0	0.6, 0.1–1.5	0.03	0.4, 0.1–0.9	0.73
	12	0.4, 0.1–1.4		0.4, 0.1–1.0
Insulin (mU/ml)	0	9.9,1.6–60.2	0.56	6.1, 0.5–38.5	0.28
	12	8.8, 0.5–53.9		5.4, 0.3–21.9
MCP–1 (pg/m)l	0	246.8, 75.6–674.9	0.46	275.9, 120.4–781.4	0.93
	12	268.0, 83.1–585.0		300.9, 120.4–637.6
TNF-α (pg/ml)	0	2.5, 1.5–3.6	0.58	2.5, 1.6–4.5	0.13
	12	2.6, 1.6–3.9		2.6, 1.1–4.2
IL-6 (pg/ml)	0	2.8, 0.8–25.4	0.11	2.5, 1.1–26.0	0.27
	12	2.5, 0.4–24.0		2.7, 1.2–25.0
ICAM-1 (ng/ml)	0	242.8, 72.8–521.2	0.34	179.8, 64.9–612.8	0.34
	12	225.4, 78.2–387.8		182.0, 69.2–366.9
CRP (mg/ml)	0	7.4, 0.2–13.2	0.32	4.3, 0.2–13.1	0.02
	12	5.8, 0.3–12.9		6.9, 0.8–13.0

Data are median with range.