Monocyte lymphocyte ratio, IL 6, and their association with increased carotid intima-media thickness as simple predictive markers for nephropathy in Egyptian diabetic patients

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 2 Demographic data and laboratory data of the studied groups

	Normoalbuminuric group		Microalbuminuric group		Macroalbuminuric group		P -value	Effect size
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	49.00	8.56	51.27	7.57	50.47	7.47	0.531	0.014
BMI	31.79	7.27	34.30	7.52	34.39	7.24	0.304	0.027
Cholesterol	184.93	36.56	190.47	39.99	207.87	52.25	0.109	0.050
TG	117.97	57.89	140.27	67.54	218.33	99.80	< 0.001	0.243
HDL	50.33	19.82	53.70	17.08	49.97	28.01	0.772	0.006
LDL	72.76	34.05	84.63	28.44	113.50	52.48	< 0.001	0.161
HbA1C	7.47	1.04	9.02	1.72	11.10	1.51	< 0.001	0.521
Creatine	0.85	0.28	1.12	0.46	2.18	1.60	< 0.001	0.266
eGFR	98.90	22.62	78.63	29.13	46.17	25.28	< 0.001	0.423
MLR	0.25	0.14	0.26	0.16	0.48	0.15	< 0.001	0.332
IL6	4.81	7.16	16.74	7.74	29.40	5.74	< 0.001	0.684