Renal Podocyte Injury in a Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes Is Prevented by Metformin

Table 1

Metabolic and physical parameters.

	NOR	SDT	MET
Body weight (g)	713.9±29.7	375.5±52.4^∗	430.5±13.4
Blood glucose (mg/dL)	144.1±21.0	419.2±21.2^∗	359.5±52.3
HbA1c (%)	3.49±0.07	9.13±0.37^∗	7.82±0.29

NOR: normal rat; SDT: spontaneously diabetic Torii rat; MET: SDT rat treated with metformin (350 mg/kg/day). All data are expressed as mean ± SE (𝑛=8). *𝑃<0.01 versus NOR group. ^#𝑃<0.01 versus SDT group.