Is Vitamin D Deficiency Related to Accumulation of Advanced Glycation End Products, Markers of Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Diabetic Subjects?

Table 4

Pearson correlation coefficients independent variables to 25(OH)D₃.

	Controls		DM patients		DM1		DM2
	0.107	0.24	−0.065	0.28	−0.097	0.54	−0.077	0.24
duration	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.201	0.20	−0.057	0.39
BMI	0.049	0.65	−0.073	0.23	0.085	0.59	−0.105	0.11
eGFR	0.082	0.50	0.051	0.42	0.028	0.87	0.066	0.34
	0.060	0.62	−0.122	0.043	−0.025	0.087	−0.135	0.039
	0.072	0.44	0.099	0.10	0.087	0.58	0.104	0.12
	−0.185	0.20	−0.197	0.006	−0.444	0.026	−0.177	0.020
	−0.062	0.67	−0.027	0.71	−0.319	0.12	−0.007	0.92
sVAP-1	0.040	0.79	−0.199	0.005	0.263	0.20	−0.184	0.016
	0.004	0.97	−0.019	0.76	0.150	0.35	−0.059	0.39
	0.112	0.30	0.196	0.002	0.506	0.003	0.141	0.037

DM: diabetes mellitus; DM1: type 1 diabetes mellitus; DM2: type 2 diabetes mellitus; ln: logarithmically transformed data; BMI: body mass index; eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate; HbA1c: haemoglobin A1c; AGE-Fl: advanced glycation end products associated fluorescence of plasma; CML: N^ε-carboxymethyllysine; sRAGE: soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products; sVAP-1: soluble vascular receptor adhesion protein-1; hsCRP: high sensitive C-reactive protein.