Table 3.
Characteristics of 8-year follow-up in T1DM patients
| Parameter | Total (n=81) | Diabetic retinopathy |
P-value | Microalbuminuria |
P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (n=75) | Yes (n=6) | No (n=78) | Yes (n=3) | |||||
| Age (yr) | 23.3±2.6 | 24.4±2.8 | 23.2±2.6 | 0.111 | 25.3±3.0 | 23.6±2.3 | 0.169 | |
| T1DM duration (yr) | 15.2±4.2 | 16.4±4.3 | 14.9±2.9 | 0.313 | 17.4±4.5 | 13.9±2.8 | 0.100 | |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 20.5±0.3 | 22.5±2.9 | 20.0±1.1 | 0.001 | 22.4±2.9 | 21.9±3.4 | 0.765 | |
| Mean HbA1c (%) | 8.6±1.1 | 8.5±1.0 | 10.1±0.7 | <0.001 | 8.6±1.1 | 10.1±0.6 | 0.019 | |
| Follow-up duration (yr)† | 7.7±0.8 | 8.9±1.8 | 6.1±1.1 | <0.001 | 8.0±0.1 | 6.6±0.9 | 0.118 | |
| Age at event (yr)‡ | NA | 22.6±2.2 | NA | 22.9±2.6 | ||||
| T1DM duration at event (yr)‡ | NA | 14.6±2.6 | NA | 13.0±4.4 | ||||
| Blood pressure group | 0.021 | 0.774 | ||||||
| Dipper | 30 (37.0) | 30 (40.0) | 0 (0) | 29 (37.1) | 1 (33.3) | |||
| Nondipper normotension | 18 (22.2) | 17 (22.7) | 1 (16.7) | 17 (21.8) | 1 (33.3) | |||
| Nondipper hypertension | 33 (40.7) | 28 (37.3) | 5 (83.3) | 32 (41.0) | 1 (33.3) | |||
Values are presented as mean±standard deviation or number (%).
T1DM, type 1 diabetes mellitus; BMI, body mass index; HbA1c, glycated hemoglobin A; NA, not available.
†
From ambulatory blood pressure monitoring evaluation to last follow-up about 8 years;
‡
Event means development of microvascular complications.