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 2

Comparison of skin AGEs levels in different DR staging groups.

Group	AGEs
Normal group (n = 186)	90.1 ± 13.8
Mild NPDR group (n = 114)	93.0 ± 17.3
Middle NPDR group (n = 68)	93.5 ± 15.5
Severe NPDR group (n = 27)	104.8 ± 14.8
PDR group (n = 21)	104.0 ± 9.5
F	21.046
	<0.001