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Table 3 Clinical characteristics of healthy controls and type 2 diabetic patients with overweight or obesity

From: Obesity-related loci in TMEM18, CDKAL1 and FAIM2 are associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes in Chinese Han patients

Parameters

Healthy controls (n = 190)

Overweight diabetes (n = 126)

Obese diabetes (n = 123)

Z/χ2

P

Age

44.24 ± 16.84

50.38 ± 14.47

47.71 ± 16.28

1.50

0.227

Male/Female

115/75

72/54

90/30*#

6.68

0.036

Waist circumference (cm)

84.24 ± 14.71

97.79 ± 15.90*

100.07 ± 14.88*

12.41

<0.001

Waist/hip ratio

0.89 ± 0.34

1.13 ± 0.33*

1.18 ± 0.26*

8.19

<0.001

BMI (kg/m2)

22.44 ± 4.50

27.07 ± 4.23*

28.30 ± 4.51*

18.64

<0.001

FPG (mmol/l)

7.33 ± 2.67

11.21 ± 3.69*

11.53 ± 3.69*

18.42

<0.001

HbA1c (%)

7.83 ± 3.16

11.29 ± 3.77*

10.18 ± 3.40*

10.32

<0.001

SBP (mmHg)

113.61 ± 13.65

137.10 ± 22.73*

137.76 ± 20.03*

19.78

<0.001

DBP (mmHg)

75.94 ± 9.57

86.64 ± 10.72*

86.76 ± 9.00*

15.67

<0.001

TG (mmol/L)

2.70 ± 1.58

5.48 ± 4.81*

5.18 ± 4.52*

5.77

0.004

TC (mmol/L)

3.80 ± 1.75

5.81 ± 2.38*

6.04 ± 2.22*

12.88

<0.001

HDL-C (mmol/L)

1.31 ± 0.66

0.85 ± 0.34*

0.93 ± 0.39*

10.48

<0.001

LDL-C (mmol/L)

2.36 ± 0.88

3.08 ± 0.98*

2.99 ± 0.90*

6.99

<0.001

FINS (μIU/mL)

12.45 ± 6.95

24.80 ± 19.79*

23.89 ± 12.23*

9.19

<0.001

HOMA-IR

4.66 ± 3.67

11.93 ± 9.45*

11.36 ± 7.27*

11.85

<0.001

HOMA-IS

0.01 (0.00, 0.02)

0.013 (0.01, 0.02) *

0.012 (0.00, 0.02)

10.39

0.006

  1. FPG fasting plasma glucose, FINS fasting insulin. * P < 0.05 vs. healthy controls; #P < 0.05 vs. overweight diabetes