Research Article

Body Mass Index and Retinopathy in Type 1 Diabetic Patients

Table 5

Scheffe’s post-hoc test: dependent variable body mass index (BMI) of type 1 diabetic patients ( ) without nephropathy was divided into three groups according to diabetic retinopathy status.

(I) diab. ret.(J) diab. ret.Mean difference (I−J)Std. errorSig.95% Confidence interval
Lower boundUpper bound

Group 1Group 2−1.32886 0.754920.216−3.19850.5408
Group 3−2.89267*0.898920.007−5.1190−0.6663

Group 2Group 11.328860.754920.216−0.54083.1985
Group 3−1.563811.046680.331−4.15611.0285

Group 3Group 12.89267*0.898920.0070.66635.1190
Group 21.563811.046680.331−1.02854.1561

The mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level.