Comparison of Corneal Parameters of Children with Diabetes Mellitus and Healthy Children

Table 1

A comparison of 50 children with diabetes mellitus and 46 normal controls enrolled in this study.

	Case group (n = 50)	Control group (n = 48)	Statistics
Age (years)	10.04 ± 2.70	9.43 ± 1.73	^§t = 1.645	0.103
Female	27	24	^‡X^2 = 1.93	0.165
Birth weight (kg)	3.37 ± 0.52	3.31 ± 0.46	t = 0.634	0.527
Body length at birth (cm)	50.70 ± 2.41	50.77 ± 2.87	t = −0.127	0.899
BMI (kg/m^2)^†	17.68 ± 3.95	17.10 ± 2.96	t = 0.808	0.421
Father’s BMI (kg/m^2)	24.73 ± 3.22	24.79 ± 3.33	t = −0.094	0.926
Mother’s BMI (kg/m^2)	21.87 ± 2.33	21.69 ± 2.36	t = 0.373	0.710
Prepregnancy BMI (kg/m^2)	20.24 ± 1.85	20.22 ± 2.39	t = 0.043	0.966
Mother’s maximum BMI (kg/m^2) during pregnancy	25.87 ± 2.96	25.32 ± 2.36	t = 0.982	0.329
Mother’s BMI (kg/m^2) within 1 month of delivery	22.60 ± 2.73	22.26 ± 2.35	t = 0.624	0.534
Gestational age (weeks)	38.24 ± 2.30	38.11 ± 1.39	t = 0.347	0.729

^†BMI = body mass index = body weight (kg)/height² (m²). ^‡X² = chi-squared test. ^§t = independent samples t test.