Table 1.
Characteristics of the study groups.
| Characteristic | Diabetes After AP (n = 26) |
Prediabetes After AP (n = 54) |
Normoglycemia After AP (n = 33) |
Healthy Controls (n = 39) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | 59 (49–69) | 57 (46–68) | 54 (46–62) | 49 (39–59) | 0.068 |
| Sex | 0.012 | ||||
| Men | 21 (80.8%) | 39 (53.7%) | 17 (51.5%) | 19 (48.7%) | |
| Women | 5 (19.2%) | 25 (46.3%) | 16 (48.5%) | 20 (51.3%) | |
| V/S Fat Volume Ratio | 0.95 (0.70–1.20) | 0.70 (0.35–1.05) | 0.50 (0.35–0.65) | 0.36 (0.21–51) | <0.001 |
| HbA1c (mmol/mol) | 52.0 (40.6–63.4) | 39.0 (36.8–41.2) | 34.0 (32.1–35.9) | 33 (30.5–35.5) | <0.001 |
| Fasting Plasma Glucose (mmol/L) | 7.60 (6.65–8.55) | 5.50 (5.10–5.90) | 4.90 (4.65–5.15) | 4.75 (4.30–5.20) | <0.001 |
| Physical Activity | 0.670 | ||||
| Inactive | 4 (23.5%) | 10 (22.7%) | 10 (35.7%) | 7 (26.9%) | |
| Active | 13 (76.5%) | 34 (87.3%) | 18 (64.3%) | 19 (73.1%) | |
| Smoking status | 0.093 | ||||
| Never | 12 (50.0%) | 20 (37.8%) | 13 (39.4%) | 22 (57.9%) | |
| Former | 9 (37.5%) | 20 (37.8%) | 13 (39.4%) | 11 (28.9%) | |
| Light | 2 (8.3%) | 6 (11.3%) | 3 (9.1%) | 5 (13.2%) | |
| Moderate/ heavy | 1 (4.2%) | 7 (13.2%) | 4 (12.1%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Alcohol consumption (U/week) | 21 (0–102) | 24 (0–93) | 96 (0–258) | 0 (0–2) | 0.152 |
| ACCI | 2.0 (0.5–3.5) | 2.0 (0.5–3.5) | 1.0 (0–1) | 0.0 (0.0–0.5) | 0.001 |
| Pancreatic amylase (U/L) | 25.0 (15.3–32.7) | 14.1 (7.6–20.6) | 14.1 (9.1–19.1) | 20.6 (12.1–29.1) | 0.073 |
Abbreviations: AP: Acute pancreatitis, HbA1c: Glycated hemoglobin, V/S: Visceral to subcutaneous fat volume ratio, ACCI: Age-adjusted Charlson index. Footnotes: Data are presented as median and interquartile range or counts frequency and percentages. P values were from analysis of variance (continuous variables) and chi-squared (categorical variables) tests. Statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences are shown in bold.