Table 1 of Cheung, Mol Vis 2012; 18:830-837.

Table 1. Baseline demographics of all patients.

  Groups  
Characteristics DR (n=27) No-DR (n=20) Control (n=24) p-value
Age (years), mean±SD 67.4±10.7 67.0±9.3 64.9±17.5 0.762c
Gender, n (%)
Male 18 (66.7) 8 (40.0) 11 (45.8) 0.146d
Female 9 (33.3) 12 (60.0) 13 (54.2)  
Duration of diabetes (years), rangea 4 - >30 1 - >10 N.A. 0.210d
Hypertension, n (%) 23 (85.2) 15 (75.0) 9 (37.5) 0.005d
Systolic BP 156.8±23.7 146±20.8 146.6±27.6 0.233c
Diastolic BP 73.8±13.0 74.3±11.3 78.5±13.2 0.400c
CVD, n (%) 9 (33.3) 6 (30.0) 2 (8.3) 0.110d
Blood glucose level (mM)b, mean±SD 9.0±2.8 8.2±2.9 5.1±1.1 0.018c

a4 groups: 0=No history of diabetes, 1=1–9 years, 2=10–19 years, 3=≥20 years bfasting glucose level cp-value by one-way ANOVA dp-value by Pearson χ2 DR=Diabetic with retinopathy; No-DR=Diabetic with no retinopathy; BP=Blood pressure; CVD=Cardiovascular disease; SD=Standard deviation

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