Research Article
Type 2 Diabetes in Young Females Results in Increased Serum Amyloid A and Changes to Features of High Density Lipoproteins in Both HDL2 and HDL3
Table 1
Subject characteristics.
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| | Age (years) | 37.26 (11.77) | 37.05 (4.98) | 0.914 | | BMI (kg/m2) | 33.52 (7.93) | 35.88 (7.72) | 0.171 | | Fasting glucose (mmol/L) | 4.94 (4.60, 5.13) | 7.78 (6.10, 9.35) | <0.001 | | HbA1c (%) | 5.42 (5.13, 5.60) | 7.26 (6.10, 8.05) | <0.001 | | Total cholesterol (mmol/L) | 4.69 (0.92) | 4.50 (0.95) | 0.363 | | Triglycerides (mmol/L) | 1.24 (0.87, 1.70) | 1.53 (1.03, 2.10) | 0.074 | | LDL cholesterol (mmol/L) | 2.80 (0.77) | 2.74 (0.76) | 0.730 | | HDL cholesterol (mmol/L) | 1.20 (1.08, 1.34) | 1.03 (0.89, 1.14) | 0.004 | | Metformin (number) | 0 | 26 | NA | | Sulfonylurea (number) | 0 | 7 | NA | | DDP-4 inhibitor (number) | 0 | 4 | NA | | GLP1 analogue (number) | 0 | 8 | NA | | Insulin (number) | 0 | 5 | NA |
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Results expressed as mean (SD) or as geometric mean (interquartile range) if not normally distributed, where indicates skewed distributions.
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