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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study participants

From: The longitudinal effect of subclinical hypothyroidism on urine microalbumin-to-urine creatinine ratio in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Characteristic

SCH (n = 46)

Euthyroid (n = 96)

P-value

Gender (male/female)b

23/23

49/47

0.91

Duration of T2DM (years)a

12.74 ± 10.40

11.63 ± 6.79

0.45

History of hypertension (have/none)b

15/31

25/71

0.42

BMI (kg/m2) a

25.14 ± 2.86

25.21 ± 2.98

0.89

TC (mmol/L)a

2.08 ± 1.15

2.13 ± 2.69

0.90

TG (mmol/L)a

4.20 ± 0.98

4.37 ± 1.56

0.51

HDL-C (mmol/L)a

1.09 ± 0.30

1.17 ± 0.29

0.10

LDL-C (mmol/L)a

2.18 ± 0.66

2.29 ± 0.72

0.38

Baseline creatinine (μmol/L)b

77.80 ± 27.19

67.25 ± 17.66

0.01

Baseline eGFR (ml/min)b

90.49 ± 35.04

103.03 ± 32.26

0.04

Baseline UACR (mg/mmol)b

4.82 ± 8.38

3.68 ± 6.25

0.64

TSH (μIU/ml) b

8.57 ± 6.31

2.09 ± 0.96

0.00

FT3 (mU/ml)b

4.12 ± 0.88

4.42 ± 0.70

0.03

FT4 (mU/ml)b

17.61 ± 14.66

16.71 ± 2.49

0.68

  1. a, Expressed as the means ± standard deviation (SD), the comparison of continuous data was achieved by t-test or rank sum test; b, Described in percentage form. The classification data were compared with X2 test. SCH subclinical hypothyroidism,T2DM type 2 diabetes mellitus, BMI body mass index, eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate, UACR urinary microalbumin-to-urine creatinine ratio, TC total cholesterol, TG triglyceride, HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, TSH thyroid stimulating hormone, FT4 free thyroid hormone, FT3 triiodothyronine