Table 3.
Demographics characteristics pure diabetic nephropathic patients.
| Parameters | Diabetic nephropathic patients with/without coexisting non-diabetic renal disease | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Cohorts | Comparisons between cohorts | |||
| With retinopathy | Without retinopathy | ||||
| Numbers of patients | 98 | 64 | 34 | p-Value | |
| Age | 49.46±10.12 | 44.10±9.93 | 54.52±11.76* | 0.033 | |
| Hight (cm) | 157.15±8.15 | 156.45±7.11 | 155.44±7.09 | 0.505 | |
| Weight (kg) | 58.59±8.12 | 57.12±7.12 | 57.02±7.02 | 0.947 | |
| Body mass index (kg/m2) | 24.01±1.12 | 24.24±0.92 | 24.32±0.91 | 0.682 | |
| Gender | Male | 70 (71) | 39 (61) | 31 (91)* | <0.001 |
| Female | 28 (29) | 25 (39) | 03 (9) | 0.088 | |
| Waist circumference (cm) | 86.12±9.13 | 85.11±8.99 | 85.21±7.55 | 0.956 | |
| Hip circumference (cm) | 94.11±10.11 | 93.89±9.15 | 93.25±9.11 | 0.742 | |
| Waist to hip ratio | 0.89±0.11 | 0.90±0.07 | 0.88±0.06 | 0.161 | |
| Waist to height ratio | 0.55±0.02 | 0.56±0.02 | 0.55±0.04 | 0.102 | |
| Diabetic complications | |||||
| Diabetic neuropathy | 25 (26) | 22 (34) | 3 (9) | 0.051 | |
| Diabetic vascular diseases | 37 (38) | 26 (41) | 11 (32) | 0.289 | |
| Duration of diabetes | 9.74±7.48 | 9.13±4.32 | 8.34±4.18 | 0.772 | |
| Duration of hypertension | 7.42±7.47 | 5.13±8.18 | 7.26±6.54 | 0.654 | |
The Mann-Whitney U test was used for continuous data and Fischer exact test for constant data was used for statistical analysis. A p<0.05 was considered significant.
*
Significantly higher among diabetic nephropathy patients without diabetic retinopathy.