Associations between Aquaglyceroporin Gene Polymorphisms and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics in diabetes cases and controls.

Variables	Diabetes	Controls	P
	mean ± SD	mean ± SD
Age (years)	58.08 ± 8.45	57.00 ± 8.30	0.069
Males	209 (52.3)	209 (52.3)	1.00
Overweight	238 (59.5)	241 (60.1)	0.829
Central obesity	272 (68.3)	282 (71.6)	0.32
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	148.60 ± 24.67	145.14 ± 17.47	0.022
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	85.51 ± 14.50	84.01 ± 12.10	0.113
Fasting glucose (mmol/L)	8.96 ± 2.71	5.16 ± 1.08	<0.001
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	5.28 ± 1.09	4.52 ± 0.85	<0.001
Triglycerides (mmol/L)	2.27 ± 2.24	1.66 ± 1.04	<0.001
High density lipoprotein cholesterol (mmol/L)	1.39 ± 0.42	1.43 ± 0.38	0.101
Low density lipoprotein cholesterol (mmol/L)	2.97 ± 0.89	2.20 ± 0.73	<0.001

SD, standard deviation.
N (%).