Table 2. Correlation between hemoglobin and other variables at baseline.

	Men		Women
	r	P	r	P
Age	-0.341	< 0.0001	-0.301	< 0.0001
Duration of diabetes	-0.242	< 0.0001	-0.254	0.0007
Body mass index	0.250	< 0.0001	0.066	0.388
Systolic blood pressure	0.050	0.396	-0.089	0.245
Hemoglobin A1c	0.231	< 0.0001	-0.029	0.706
Total cholesterol	0.156	0.007	0.187	0.014
Logarithm of triglycerides	0.181	0.002	0.009	0.903
Uric acid	-0.058	0.317	0.043	0.575
Creatinine	-0.143	0.014	-0.227	0.003
UACR at baseline	-0.020	0.756	-0.089	0.324
UACR after 3 years	-0.168	0.004	-0.216	0.005

UACR, urinary albumin-creatinine ratio