[Table/Fig-2]:
Baseline characteristics of participants across stages of severity of DPN.
| Clinical Characteristics with Normal Reference Interval |
Control’s (N=43) Mean ± SD |
Stage 0 (N=12) Mean ± SD |
Stage 1 (N=31) Mean ± SD |
Stage 2 (N=31) Mean ± SD |
Stage 3 (N=30) Mean ± SD |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age in years Mean ± SD |
49.62±9.45 | 49.41±8.19 | 54.58±7.82 | 51.87±9.27 | 55.5±7.10 |
0.221 |
| Gender (Male/Female) | 31:12 | 8:4 | 23:8 | 25:6 | 28:2 | 0.129 |
| Duration of disease(yrs) | 0.00 | 2.42±2.71 | 6.58±4.40 | 6.65±3.73 | 7.90±5.54 | <0.001 |
| Vitamin -B12 (180-914 pg/ml) |
302.1±208.4 |
311.5±214.3 |
496.6±346.9 |
571.4±450 |
694.1±393.2 |
<0.001 |
| TSH (0.34-5.6 μIU/ml) |
2.37±1.73 | 2.63±1.4 | 1.83±0.9 | 1.83±0.97 | 2.57±1.51 | 0.078 |