Microvascular Complications and Their Associated Risk Factors in Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Table 1

Clinical and biochemical characteristics of patients with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus ( = 449).

Variables	No microvascular complication ( = 368)	Any one of the three complications ( = 81)	value
Age	49.3 ± 10.2	56.0 ± 8.9	<0.0001^a
Duration of diabetes (years)	0.2 (0.1–0.4)	0.16 (0.1–0.3)	0.211^b
Gender n (%) male	173 (47)	33 (41)	0.326^c
Gender n (%) female	195 (53)	48 (59)
BMI (Kg/m^2)	27.4 ± 5.2	27.2 ± 4.5	0.748^a
Waist circumference (cm)	96.5 ± 13.1	96.9 ± 12.9	0.803^a
Hypertension n (%)	196 (53)	35 (43)	0.112^c
TC (mg/dL)	200 ± 53	193 ± 58	0.313^a
LDL C (mg/dL)	117 ± 37	110 ± 43	0.158^a
HDL C (mg/dL)	42 ± 10	42 ± 8	0.724^a
TG (mg/dL)	103 (37–165)	150 (92–198)	0.005^b
HbA1c	8.2 ± 2.3	9.1 ± 2.5	0.001^a
Serum creatinine	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	0.122^b
Smoking (%)	48 (13)	7 (9)	0.364^c
Alcohol (%)	69 (19)	10 (12)	0.226^c
Socioeconomic status
Upper (%)	45 (12)	9 (11)	0.235^c
Middle (%)	250 (68)	49 (61)
Lower (%)	73 (20)	23 (28)

^*Expressed as mean ± standard deviation and median interquartile range. ^aAnalyzed using independent sample test, ^banalyzed using Mann-Whitney test, and ^canalyzed using chi-square test; TC: total cholesterol, LDL-C: low density lipoprotein cholesterol, HDL-C: high density lipoprotein cholesterol, TGs: triglycerides, and HbA1c: glycated hemoglobin.