Table 1 of Abhary, Mol Vis 2009; 15:1179-1184.


Table 1. Comparison of clinical characteristics of participants by type of diabetes and DR status.



Clinical characteristics
T1DM

p value
T2DM

p value
No DR
(n=94)
Blinding DR
(n=76)
No DR
(n=187)
Blinding DR
(n=139)
Sex (female) 48 (51) 29 (45) 0.478 100 (53) 45 (35) 0.001
Age (years) 38.4±14.9 49.8±15.5 <0.001 64.3±14.5 64.0±10.7 0.853
Disease duration (years) 15.4±9.1 30.9±13.4 <0.001 12.9±8.7 17.5±8.6 <0.001
HbA1c (%) 7.6±2.5 8.8±2.3 0.004 6.6±2.9 7.5±3.4 0.014
BMI (kg/m2) 25.9±7.1 25.9±9.8 0.958 32.2±9.1 29.6±11.5 0.026
Hypercholesterolemia (%) 33 (35) 32 (50) 0.062 120 (64) 81 (63) 0.802
Nephropathy (%) 40 (15) 29 (45) <0.001 43 (23) 46 (36) 0.014
Smoker (%) 44 (47) 35 (55) 0.331 99 (53) 69 (53) 0.924
Hypertension (%) 37 (39) 46 (72) <0.001 153 (82) 107 (83) 0.796