Circulating Expression Level of LncRNA Malat1 in Diabetic Kidney Disease Patients and Its Clinical Significance

Table 2

Comparisons of general clinical data in three groups.

	Healthy control group ()	T2DM groups ()	DKD groups ()	or value	value
Sex	Male 8	Male 12	Male 16	0.29	0.986
	Female 61	Female 8	Female 11
Age (years)				1.228	0.3
Disease duration (years)	0				0.23
FBG (mmol/L)				10.41	0.00
SOD (μ/ml)				7.09	0.002
BMI (kg/m2)				0.326	0.72
ACR (mg/g)				8.31	0.001
Urine β2-MG (mg/L)				0.963	0.39
Urine α1-MG (mg/L)				6.47	0.003
Cr (μmol/L)				4.84	0.011
TG (mmol/L)				0.60	0.551
LDL (mmol/L)				1.77	0.180
HbA1C (%)				22.60	0.000
EGFR (ml/min)				4.20	0.020

indicated statistical significance, , . Abbreviations: SOD: superoxide dismutase; BMI: body mass index; HbA1c: glycated hemoglobin; FBG: fasting blood-glucose; TG: triglyceride; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; Cr: creatinine; eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate; ACR: urine albumin/creatinine; β2-MG: urine β2-microglobulin; α1-MG: urine α1-microglobulin (α1-MG).