Serum Lipoprotein (a) Levels in Black South African Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Table 3

Clinical characteristics of diabetic patients by Lp(a) tertiles.

	Tertile 1	Tertile 2	Tertile 3	value
Age	46.4 ± 9.5	47.3 ± 8.2	51.8 ± 8.6	0.051
Diabetic duration	1.7 ± 2.9	4.0 ± 3.3	7.8 ± 5.6	0.038
HbA1c	8.3 ± 1.4	9.6 ± 2.6	9.9 ± 3.3	0.403
Total cholesterol	4.6 ± 1.1	4.7 ± 0.77	5.1 ± 1.0	0.12
LDL	2.7 ± 1.0	2.7 ± 0.79	3.1 ± 0.88	0.09
Ox-LDL	87.3 ± 30	117 ± 24	141.7 ± 26.6	0.048
CRP	3.1 ± 1.9	5 ± 3.5	7.7 ± 4.4	0.057
TAO	0.64 ± 0.3	0.61 ± 0.3	0.53 ± 0.1	0.041
TG	1.45 ± 0.5	1.36 ± 0.3	1.46 ± 0.4	0.675

Data is shown as mean ± standard deviation. The median difference is significant at .