Table 5.

Correlation between antioxidant and clinical parameters in different groups of patients

	Control N = 20		DPNC N = 40		DPWC N = 30
	r 2	P value	r 2	P value	r 2	P value
Fasting blood glucose and CAT	0.252	0.285	−0.151	0.340	0.460	0.011
Fasting blood glucose and glutathione	0.134	0.573	−0.540	0.001	0.025	0.897
TAC and glutathione	0.563	0.010	0.122	0.440	−0.059	0.758
HbA1 and NO	0.392	0.04	0.76	0.003	0.123	0.004

DPNP diabetic patients without complications, DPWC diabetic patients with complications, CAT catalase, TAC total antioxidant capacity, NO Nitrite oxide

P < 0.05 is significant