Frequency and significance of the novel single nucleotide missense polymorphism Val109Asp in the human gene encoding omentin in Caucasian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus or chronic inflammatory bowel diseases

Table 2 Characteristics of 114 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2

	Total	Males	Females	p
n (%)	114 (100)	68 (59.6)	46 (40.4)
Age (years ± SEM)	62.9 ± 0.9	60.8 ± 1.3	66.2 ± 1.4	* 0.008
BMI (kg/m² ± SEM)	28.8 ± 0.7	30.3 ± 0.9	26.7 ± 0.9	* 0.016
Diabetes duration (years ± SEM)	7.8 ± 0.8	7.6 ± 1.0	8.1 ± 1.4	ns
HbA_1c (% ± SEM)	7.5 ± 0.2	7.6 ± 0.2	7.4 ± 0.3	ns
Cholesterol, total (mg/dl ± SEM)	199 ± 5	196 ± 7	203 ± 7	ns
HDL-cholesterol (mg/dl ± SEM)	49 ± 2	46 ± 2	54 ± 3	* 0.03
LDL-cholesterol (mg/dl ± SEM)	117 ± 5	122 ± 7	110 ± 6	ns
Triglycerides (mg/dl ± SEM)	176 ± 11	188 ± 14	158 ± 15	ns
Uric acid (mg/dl ± SEM)	6.7 ± 0.6	7.3 ± 0.9	5.9 ± 0.4	ns

SEM = standard error of the mean, ns = not significant, * = statistical significance between males and females

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