Table 4.

Correlation between family history of diabetes and clinical characteristics

	Parental history of DM				Sibling history of DM
	r	P	a-r	a-P	r	P	a-r	a-P
Sex	0.046	0.171			−0.134	＜0.001
Age	−0.237	＜0.001			0.125	＜0.001
SBP	−0.031	0.357	−0.031	0.357	−0.037	0.266	−0.034	0.319
DBP	0.032	0.334	0.002	0.958	−0.015	0.653	−0.002	0.951
BMI	0.06	0.077			−0.088	0.01
TG	0.075	0.028	0.026	0.45	−0.018	0.6	0.011	0.753
TC	0.07	0.041	0.054	0.125	0.038	0.273	0.045	0.204
HDL	−0.063	0.066	−0.04	0.256	0.019	0.581	−0.031	0.383
LDL	0.045	0.179	0.03	0.376	−0.011	0.741	−0.021	0.542
FBG	0.141	＜0.001	0.119	0.001*	0.054	0.109	0.075	0.028
HbA1C	0.101	0.003	0.071	0.038	0.005	0.87	0.01	0.777
HOMA2-IR (%)	−0.022	0.521	−0.039	0.275	−0.015	0.673	0.008	0.83
HOMA2-B (%)	−0.093	0.007	−0.066	0.061	−0.07	0.044	−0.096	0.007
DKA	0.079	0.019	0.05	0.146	0.03	0.369	0.05	0.142

a-r and a-p: correlation adjusted for sex, age and BMI.

HOMA2-B and HOMA2-IR were applied to estimate the function of β-cell and insulin resistance, respectively, which were calculated using fasting plasma glucose and C-peptide.

*Refers to p<0.05.

BMI, body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; DKA, diabetic keto acidosis; DM, diabetes mellitus; FBG, fasting blood glucose; HbA_1C, glycosylated haemoglobin; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; HOMA2-B, homoeostatic model assessment 2-B; HOMA2-IR, homoeostatic model assessment 2-insulin resistance; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP, systolic blood pressure; TC, total cholesterol; TG, triglyceride; WHR, waist-to-hip ratio.