Table 2.

Correlation between the lncRNA gene expression and the clinical and laboratory data of the studied patients.

Parameters	GAS5 gene				LY86-AS1 gene				HCG27_201 gene
	Diabetic group		Pre-diabetic group		Diabetic group		Pre-diabetic group		Diabetic group		Pre-diabetic group
	r	P	R	p	r	p	r	p	r	P	r	p
Age/years	0.087	0.460	0.269	0.030*	−0.035	0.766	−0.003	0.980	−0.205	0.078	−0.221	0.077
Disease duration	0.066	0.574	–	–	−0.135	0.248	–	–	−0.172	0.141	---	----
BMI (kg/m2)	0.212	0.068	−0.181	0.148	0.145	0.216	0.136	0.279	−0.125	0.284	−0.288	0.020*
FBG (mg/dl)	−0.313	0.006**	−0.192	0.125	−0.043	0.716	0.214	0.087	−0.343	0.003**	0.140	0.265
2-HPPG (mg/dl)	0.128	0.274	0.062	0.624	−0.034	0.773	0.00	0.999	−0.281	0.015*	0.116	0.358
HbA1c (%)	−0.252	0.029*	0.027	0.829	−0.353	0.002**	−0.252	0.043*	−0.054	0.645	−0.094	0.456
HDLc (mg/dl)	−0.122	0.295	0.146	0.245	−0.072	0.540	0.020	0.876	0.075	0.520	−0.132	0.293
T. cholesterol (mg/dl)	−0.021	0.855	0.090	0.474	0.120	0.305	−0.281	0.023*	−0.001	0.996	0.111	0.381
TGs (mg/dl)	0.192	0.100	−0.066	0.601	−0.069	0.555	0.154	0.221	0.027	0.817	−0.211	0.091
LDL (mg/dl)	−0.031	0.794	0.125	0.322	0.152	0.192	0.219	0.080	−0.007	0.956	0.190	0.129

r_s: Spearman coefficient **Highly significant.