Comparison of ox-LDL Levels in Diabetic Patients with Normo-, Micro-, and Macroalbuminuria with Their First Degree Relatives and the Healthy Control Group

Table 4

Spearman’s correlation coefficients between lipid parameters, FBG, HbA1c, and OX-LDL in all groups of the study.

Groups	Total cholesterol	LDL-C	HDL-C	TG	HbA1c	FBG
	r Pearson	r Pearson	r Pearson	r Pearson	r Pearson	r Pearson
Ox-LDL of normoalbuminurics	−0.07	−0.085	−0.25	−0.21	−0.024	−0.220
Ox-LDL of microalbuminurics	−0.086	−0.2	−0.28	0.28	−0.379	0.36
Ox-LDL of macroalbuminurics	−0.148	0.066	0.001	−0.139	−0.136	−0.129
Ox-LDL of first degree relatives	−0.26	0.21	−0.029	0.26	0.03	−0.093
Ox-LDL of control group	0.49	0.33	0.092	0.05	0.057	−0.37

^*Abbreviations: HDL: high density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL: low density lipoprotein cholesterol, FBG: fasting blood glucose, HbA: glycosylated hemoglobin.