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. 2019 Jul 11;17:132. doi: 10.1186/s12916-019-1363-0

Table 3.

Main characteristics of the patients with non-monogenic diabetes, class 3 variants, and class 4–5 variants

Non-monogenica Class 3 variants Class 4–5 variants p class 3 vs. non-monogenic p class 3 vs. class 4–5
N 1241 59 254
N inclusion criteria: 2/3 486/755 20/39 56/198 0.4949 0.0643
Sex: female/men, n (%) 619/622 (50%) 34/25 (58%) 168/86 (66%) 0.2867 0.2295
EuroCaucasian: yes/no 600/499 (55%) 28/26 (52%) 192/37 (84%) 0.7799 < 10−4
N affected generations ≥ 3, yes/no 581/631 (48%) 34/25 (58%) 144/105 (58%) 0.1818 1.0000
Age at diagnosis (years) 31 [25–39] (1239) 31 [26–37.5] (59) 24 [18–30] (254) 0.8811 < 10−4
BMI at diagnosis, kg/2 (n) 24.2 [21.6–27.7] (1107) 23.7 [21.7–27.3] (51) 21.8 [20.1–24.2] (221) 0.8219 0.0007
BMI: normal/increased, n (%) 642/475 (57%) 29/23 (56%) 180/43 (81%) 0.8861 0.0005
Symptoms at diagnosis: yes/no 461/702 (40%) 15/40 (27%) 37/204 (15%) 0.0677 0.0484
HbA1c at diagnosis, % (n) 9.6 [7–12] (588) 8.2 [6.8–11.6] (35) 6.7 [6.3–8.7] (157) 0.4888 0.0014
HbA1c at diagnosis, mmol/mol (n) 81 [53–108] 66 [51–103] 50 [45–72] 0.4888 0.0014
Insulin therapy: yes/no 339/768 (31%) 14/37 (27%) 38/189 (17%) 0.7560 0.1098
Arterial hypertension: yes/no 214/538 (28%) 8/32 (20%) 23/133 (15%) 0.2826 0.4667
Dyslipidemia: yes/no 235/461 (34%) 12/26 (32%) 23/116 (17%) 0.8613 0.0635

Values are actual numbers with percentages into parentheses, or median with interquartile range into brackets and numbers of values into parentheses

BMI body mass index

aNon-monogenic, no genetic etiology detected by targeted NGS on 7 genes