Clinical Study

Cerebral White Matter and Retinal Arterial Health in Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Table 1

Demographic and endocrine data: hypertensive versus normotensive.

HypertensiveNormotensive Cohen’s
( )( )
Mean ± SDMean ± SD

Age (years) 0.070.48
Gendera14 F/19 M15 F/14 M0.46
Ethnicitya (white/black/hispanic/others)22/7/2/220/6/1/20.97
Diabetes (%)a66.7%27.6%<0.01
BMI (kg/m2) <0.010.75
Systolic BP (mmHg) 0.010.64
Diastolic BP (mmHg) 0.400.21
HbA1C (%) 0.010.66
Fasting glucose (mmol/L) 0.010.71
HDL (mmol/L) 0.910.03
Triglycerides (mmol/L) 0.130.40
PWMH ratinga,b15/13/523/6/00.01
DWMH ratinga,b15/13/520/8/10.12

Data is provided in means ± standard deviations unless otherwise specified.
aChi-square test of independence for nominal data and data in percentage.
bData represent number of individuals for WMH ratings of 0, 1, and 2, respectively.