Cerebral White Matter and Retinal Arterial Health in Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Table 3

Demographic and endocrine data: hypertensive/T2DM versus hypertensive/non-T2DM.

	HTN/T2DM	HTN/non-T2DM	𝑃	Cohen’s 𝑑
	(𝑛=22)	(𝑛=11)
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Age (years)	58.36±7.91	62.38±7.32	0.17	−0.52
Gender^a	11 F/11 M	3 F/8 M	0.22
Ethnicity (white/black/hispanic/others)	14/5/1/2	8/2/1/0	0.70
BMI (kg/m^2)	32.89±7.03	25.48±5.08	<0.01	1.15
Systolic BP (mmHg)	121.36±11.65	123.18±19.75	0.78	−0.12
Diastolic BP (mmHg)	72.59±8.78	73.64±15.20	0.80	−0.09
HbA1C (%)	7.89±1.90	5.64±0.19	<0.001	1.39
Fasting glucose (mg/dL)	8.01±3.26	4.40±0.62	<0.001	1.33
HDL (mg/dL)	2.50±0.80	3.16±1.03	0.05	−0.75
Triglycerides (mg/dL)	7.97±6.40	6.21±3.04	0.39	0.32
PWMH rating^a,b	9 /10/3	6/3/2	0.60
DWMH rating^a,b	10/8/4	5/5/1	0.76

Data is provided in means ± standard deviations unless otherwise specified.
^aChi-square test of independence for nominal data and data in percentage.
^bData represent number of individuals for WMH ratings of 0, 1, and 2, respectively.