Table 3.

Partial correlation of serum LCN-2 with other risk factors of DN and CAP.

	Serum LCN-2		Serum LCN-2 (age-adjusted)		Serum LCN-2 (age- and T2DM duration-adjusted)
Variables	r	P	r	P	r	P
Age	0.198	<0.001
T2DM duration	0.188	<0.001	0.133	<0.001
BMI	-0.031	0.404	-0.019	0.598	-0.013	0.720
HbA1c*	0.047	0.201	0.108	0.003	0.106	<0.001
SBP	0.168	<0.001	0.115	0.002	0.099	0.004
DBP	0.016	0.672	0.022	0.545	0.027	0.007
TG*	0.029	0.428	0.064	0.081	0.066	0.458
TC*	-0.041	0.260	-0.015	0.680	-0.016	0.072
HDL-c*	-0.096	0.009	-0.140	<0.001	-0.147	0.667
LDL-c*	-0.076	0.039	-0.055	0.134	-0.052	0.161
Sua*	0.056	0.124	0.074	0.044	0.069	0.060
Bun*	0.099	0.007	0.041	0.262	0.037	0.314
Scr*	0.187	<0.001	0.170	<0.001	0.161	<0.001
UACR*	0.260	<0.001	0.235	<0.001	0.201	<0.001
Hypertension	0.166	<0.001	0.099	0.007	0.091	0.013
Plaque score	0.399	<0.001	0.354	<0.001	0.347	<0.001
CAP	0.412	<0.001	0.370	<0.001	0.361	<0.001
DN	0.165	<0.001	0.140	<0.001	0.068	0.064

^*Log transformed before analysis. The use of bold emphasis is to mark the statistically significant indicators.