Table 3

Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis

Parameter	DR			VTDR
Parameter	AUC^a	95% CI^a	P	AUC^a	95% CI^a	P
MBL	0.81	0.76–0.86		0.84	0.74–0.93
Age	0.63	0.52–0.75	<0.0001	0.65	0.51–0.78	<0.0001
Male sex	0.65	0.55–0.76	<0.001	0.62	0.51–0.71	<0.001
Diabetes duration	0.79	0.72–0.89	0.12	0.81	0.71–0.92	<0.01
Systolic BP	0.66	0.60–0.70	<0.001	0.64	0.58–0.70	<0.001
HbA_1c	0.77	0.69–0.83	<0.01	0.79	0.70–0.86	<0.01
hs-CRP	0.67	0.59–0.78	<0.001	0.69	0.63–0.75	<0.001
Combined model^a	0.85	0.78–0.93	<0.01	0.88	0.81–0.95	<0.01

↵^aCombined model = HbA_1c + MBL.