Table 6.

Correlation of clinical investigations with telomere length and Vitamin D in diabetic subjects

Variable	TL		Vitamin D
	rho	P	r	P
Age	0.20	0.1840	-0.05	0.718
BMI	-0.39	0.0083	-0.25	0.0470
Duration of T2DM	0.13	0391	-0.32	0.0165
WHR	-0.28	00332	-0.02	09033
HbA1c (%)	-0.99	<0.0001	0.08	05897
FBS (mg/dl)	-0.97	<0.0001	0.06	0.7184
PPBS (mg/dl)	-0.98	<0.0001	0.05	0.7646
Serum creatinine (mg/dl)	-0.05	0.7316	-0.31	0.0381
Total leukocyte count	0.01	0.9472	-0.14	03299
Vitamin D	0.11	0.4594	-	-

Rho: Spearman rank correlation, r: Pearson correlation coefficient. BMI: Body mass index, WHR: Waist-hip-ratio, HbA1c: Glycated hemoglobin, FBS: Fasting blood sugars, PPBS: Postprandial blood sugar, T2DM: Type 2 diabetes mellitus, TL: Telomere length