Table 3.

Glucose and lipid metabolism indicators of enrolled patients

	Con	DDM	P value
N	88	19	-
HbA1c (%)	5.2±0.4	6.4±0.6	<0.001**
FBG (mmol/L)	5.2±0.6	7.1±0.8	<0.001**
Fasting insulin (µU/ml)	8.9±2.1	10.5±2.4	<0.001**
HOMA-IR	1.4±0.3	2.3±0.6	<0.001**
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.09±0.34	4.38±0.35	0.001**
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	1.27±0.19	1.29±0.26	0.795
LDL (mmol/L)	2.11±0.31	2.34±0.35	0.005**

Con, chronic osteomyelitis patients without diabetes; DDM, chronic osteomyelitis patients with diabetes; HbA1c, glycosylated haemoglobin; FBG, fasting blood glucose; LDL, low density lipoprotein. **, p<0.01.