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Table 2 Albuminuria groups at baseline: median, mean and SD of the coefficient of variation of AER across the persistent, intermittent, progressing and regressing groups

From: Long-term intra-individual variability of albuminuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus: implications for categorization of albumin excretion rate

Albuminuria group

Pattern

N

No. of samples mean (SD)

Median coefficient of variation

Mean coefficient

of variation

SD

p-value*

p-value†

Normoalbuminuria

Total

289

19 (7)

53.3

67.7

0.450

  

Persistent

116

18 (7)

37.7

38.2

0.121

  

Intermittent

111

20 (8)

66.0

78.8

0.474

<0.001

 

Progressing

62

20 (8)

94.8

100.3

0.459

<0.001

 

Microalbuminuria

Total

157

19 (6)

76.0

81.6

0.38

0.007

 

Persistent

5

15 (2)

43.0

41.3

0.103

  

Intermittent

84

21 (8)

70.6

74.8

0.279

0.064

 

Progressing

28

22 (7)

86.1

98.8

0.531

0.002

0.003

Regressing

40

22 (8)

82.3

89.1

0.399

0.008

0.033

Macroalbuminuria

Total

51

15 (8)

67.0

75.4

0.439

0.41‡

 

Persistent

18

13 (4)

55.2

61.8

0.264

  

Intermittent

15

17 (10)

67.0

69.2

0.218

0.071

 

Remission

18

17 (9)

82.4

94.1

0.631

0.071

 
  1. ‡P-values result from multivariate regression between each albuminuria group and the normoalbuminuria group
  2. *P-values result from multivariate regression between each pattern and the persistent pattern of each respective albuminuria group
  3. †P-values result from multivariate regression between each pattern and the intermittent pattern of each respective albuminuria group