Journal of Diabetes Research / 2021 / Article / Tab 2 / Research Article
Correlation between Imaging Morphological Findings and Laboratory Biomarkers in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema Table 2 Association between laboratory variables and hyperreflective foci on optical coherence tomography. Laboratory variables are summarized as median (IQR: interquartile range).
HF present ( ) HF absent ( ) value (MWW)Red blood cells (106 /μ l) 4.65 (0.61) 4.73 (0.91) 0.824 White blood cells (103 /μ l) 8.54 (2.10) 7.29 (2.26) 0.028 Neutrophils (103 /μ l) 5.24 (2.08) 4.37 (1.41) 0.124 Lymphocytes (103 /μ l) 2.30 (1.01) 1.91 (0.61) 0.096 Monocytes (103 /μ l) 0.63 (0.20) 0.51 (0.27) 0.260 Platelets (103 /μ l) 248 (37) 219 (78) 0.073 Hematocrit (%) 40.6 (4.1) 40.7 (3.5) 0.547 Hemoglobin (g/dl) 13.9 (1.5) 13.4 (1.5) 0.419 Monocytes/lymphocytes 0.27 (0.14) 0.29 (0.19) 0.962 Neutrophils/lymphocytes 2.15 (0.92) 2.25 (1.36) 0.937 Monocytes/HDL 0.013 (0.006) 0.011 (0.007) 0.516 Glucose (mg/dl) 198 (87) 161 (81) 0.084 HbA1c (%) 8.8 (2.5) 7.8 (1.8) 0.281 Urea (mg/dl) 37.8 (10.8) 37.5 (23.6) 0.635 Creatinine (mg/dl) 0.8 (0.2) 0.9 (0.7) 0.168 Cholesterol (mg/dl) 172 (61) 147 (56) 0.384 LDL (mg/dl) 94 (56) 80 (44) 0.310 HDL (mg/dl) 45 (14) 47 (17) 0.975 Triglycerides (mg/dl) 170 (168) 122 (89) 0.059 IL-6 (pg/ml) 3.5 (3.7) 3.8 (2.2) 0.680 Apolipoprotein A (mg/dl) 145 (35) 141 (37) 0.334 Apolipoprotein B (mg/dl) 89 (44) 77 (34) 0.228 Lipoprotein (a) (nmol/l) 28.7 (38.6) 15.4 (107.3) 0.975 Homocysteine (μ mol/l) 14.7 (7.4) 17.8 (11.2) 0.141 Vitamin D (ng/ml) 19.8 (12.7) 21.6 (18.1) 0.506
HF: hyperreflective foci; MWW: Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon’s test.