Journal of Diabetes Research / 2021 / Article / Tab 4 / Research Article
Correlation between Imaging Morphological Findings and Laboratory Biomarkers in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema Table 4 Association between laboratory variables and macular ischemia on fluorescein angiography. Laboratory variables are summarized as median (IQR: interquartile range).
Macular ischemia presence ( ) Macular ischemia absence ( ) (MWW)Red blood cells (106 /μ l) 4.65 (0.73) 4.70 (0.82) 0.932 White blood cells (103 /μ l) 9.0 (2.49) 7.57 (1.96) 0.096 Neutrophils (103 /μ l) 5.24 (1.96) 4.57 (2.03) 0.074 Lymphocytes (103 /μ l) 2.33 (1.87) 2.03 (0.46) 0.718 Monocytes (103 /μ l) 0.64 (0.38) 0.51 (0.19) 0.027 Platelets (103 /μ l) 243 (86) 244 (72) 0.430 Hematocrit (%) 40.5 (6.4) 40.7 (5.3) 0.503 Hemoglobin (g/dl) 13.2 (1.4) 13.9 (1.4) 0.345 Monocytes/lymphocytes 0.29 (0.21) 0.27 (0.14) 0.159 Neutrophils/lymphocytes 2.15 (2.95) 2.25 (0.99) 0.718 Monocytes/HDL 0.016 (0.010) 0.011 (0.004) 0.019 Glucose (mg/dl) 198 (219) 167 (62) 0.606 HbA1c (%) 9.4 (3.0) 7.4 (1.8) 0.074 Urea (mg/dl) 40 (16.8) 35.8 (20) 0.154 Creatinine (mg/dl) 0.8 (0.5) 0.8 (0.2) 0.889 Cholesterol (mg/dl) 172 (80) 147 (55) 0.216 LDL (mg/dl) 98 (68) 80 (43) 0.287 HDL (mg/dl) 43 (16) 48 (19) 0.390 Triglycerides (mg/dl) 211 (190) 128 (70) 0.198 IL-6 (pg/ml) 4.2 (6.2) 3.0 (2.5) 0.149 Apolipoprotein A (mg/dl) 141 (33) 143 (34) 0.606 Apolipoprotein B (mg/dl) 93 (63) 81 (33) 0.363 Lipoprotein (a) (nmol/l) 34.7 (92.6) 15.4 (59.6) 0.363 Homocysteine (μ mol/l) 17.8 (6.8) 15.7 (8) 0.731 Vitamin D (ng/ml) 17.9 (13) 21.6 (12.3) 0.668
MWW: Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon’s test.