Elevated Levels of Urinary Markers of Oxidative DNA and RNA Damage in Type 2 Diabetes with Complications

Table 3

Pearson’s correlation coefficients of nucleic acid oxidation with variables of interest.

Study subjects	All		Healthy controls		Type 2 diabetes
	8-oxodGuo
Age	0.208	<0.001	0.346	<0.001	0.062	0.120
Fasting blood glucose	0.019	0.509	0.074	0.063	0.004	0.919
Triglyceride	−0.042	0.140	−0.055	0.167	−0.038	0.365
Total cholesterol	−0.025	0.381	0.060	0.127	−0.092	0.028
HDL cholesterol	0.041	0.150	0.125	0.002	−0.029	0.494
LDL cholesterol	−0.057	0.048	0.015	0.709	−0.108	0.010
8-oxoGuo
Age	0.350	<0.001	0.497	<0.001	0.239	<0.001
Fasting blood glucose	0.135	<0.001	0.095	0.016	0.019	0.649
Triglyceride	0.000	0.990	0.030	0.442	−0.059	0.159
Total cholesterol	−0.037	0.199	0.099	0.012	−0.074	0.078
HDL cholesterol	0.009	0.750	0.122	0.002	0.002	0.953
LDL cholesterol	−0.073	0.011	0.007	0.854	−0.081	0.055