Is Urinary NGAL Determination Useful for Monitoring Kidney Function and Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease? A 12-Month Observation of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Table 2

Multiple logistic regression model showing the association between selected variables and cardiovascular complications among 55 T2DM patients evaluated at the beginning of the study.

Independent variables	Odds ratio (95% confidence interval)
Age, years	1.11 (0.99–1.25)	0.07
Female sex	0.44 (0.05–3.80)	0.4
T2DM duration, years	1.03 (0.84–1.26)	0.8
BMI, kg/m^2	1.22 (1.00–1.48)	0.041
Hypertension	5.21 (0.15–185)	0.3
Dyslipidemia	0.16 (0.02–1.68)	0.1
uACR > 30 mg/g	25.20 (1.01–639)	0.042
uNCR > 21.3 μg/g	14.99 (1.01–247)	0.048
Whole model	chi^2 = 19.8;

For abbreviations, see Table 1.