Association between Related Purine Metabolites and Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Table 3

Correlations between six purine metabolites and clinical parameters.

	Uric acid	Hypoxanthine	Xanthine	Inosine	Adenine	Adenosine
Age	−0.029	−0.037	0.009	−0.043	0.012	−0.080
Duration	0.100	0.171	0.398	0.202	−0.012	0.348
BMI	0.071	−0.065	0.321**	0.206	0.296*	−0.015
HbA1c	0.229	0.053	0.171	0.227	−0.005	0.121
Fasting blood glucose	−0.166	−0.125	−0.047	−0.048	0.059	−0.082
Urea nitrogen	0.622**	0.079	0.615**	0.685**	−0.016	0.568**
HDL	−0.016	0.169	0.153	0.027	0.208	0.061
LDL	−0.169	−0.041	−0.021	−0.103	0.011	−0.031
Cholesterol	−0.150	−0.049	−0.075	−0.146	−0.017	−0.129
Triglyceride	−0.063	−0.087	−0.179	−0.138	−0.163	−0.125
SBP	0.382**	0.002	0.453**	0.357**	0.074	0.336**
DBP	0.113	−0.077	−0.003	0.016	−0.029	−0.027

∗Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).