The Correlation between the Level of Skin Advanced Glycation End Products in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy and the Types of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome

Table 1

Comparison of primary data of different DR staging groups.

	Normal group (n = 186)	Mild NPDR group (n = 114)	Middle NPDR group (n = 68)	Severe NPDR group (n = 27)	PDR group (n = 21)
Gender (male/female)	119/67	63/51	39/29	17/10	14/7
Age (years) [M (Q)]	56.8 (7.4)	59.8 (7.7)	57.5 (9.4)	65.5 (5.1)	62.8 (6.0)
Height (cm)	163.3 ± 5.7	161.8 ± 6.9	163.0 ± 7.5	162.3 ± 7.1	155.3 ± 6.8
Weight (kg)	66.1 ± 4.8	68.9 ± 5.0	66.4 ± 6.4	64.0 ± 6.4	58.0 ± 7.5
Course of disease (year)	3.0 ± 1.6	3.5 ± 1.8	3.4 ± 1.1	3.5 ± 1.5	3.3 ± 1.7
FPG (mmol/L)	9.4 ± 1.4	9.7 ± 1.9	10.2 ± 1.6	11.7 ± 2.8	10.5 ± 2.1
HbA1c (%)	8.7 ± 1.7	8.5 ± 1.6	9.2 ± 2.0	8.7 ± 2.1	9.2 ± 1.7
TC (mmol/L)	4.4 ± 1.7	4.7 ± 1.6	4.5 ± 1.3	5.5 ± 1.4	5.1 ± 2.7
TG (mmol/L)	1.3 ± 0.7	1.5 ± 0.7	1.7 ± 0.8	2.0 ± 0.4	1.3 ± 0.5
LDL (mmol/L)	2.1 ± 0.8	2.7 ± 0.9	2.7 ± 0.5	2.5 ± 0.8	2.2 ± 1.1
HDL (mmol/L)	1.5 ± 0.8	1.1 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 0.9	1.3 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 0.4
UMA (g/L)	42.6 ± 7.5	70.8 ± 9.5	126.6 ± 23.2	315.7 ± 37.5	298.6 ± 64.8