Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Human Tongue Thermography Could Be a Prognostic Tool for Prescreening the Type II Diabetes Mellitus

Table 4

Pearson correlation of studied type II diabetes mellitus subjects (n = 70).


	Age (years)	Hip cir (cm)	SBP (mmHg)	DBP (mmHg)	HbA_1c (%)	FBS (mg/dl)	PPBS (mg/dl)	EAG (mg/dl)	TST (°C)

Age (years)	1
Hip cir (cm)	0.458	1
Waist cir (cm)	0.305	0.780	1
DBP (mmHg)	0.047	−0.108	0.718	1
HbA_1c (%)	−0.082	0.076	0.235	0.246	1
FBS (mg/dl)	−0.039	0.047	0.082	0.115	0.647	1
PPBS (mg/dl)	0.007	0.099	0.093	0.071	0.711	0.653	1
EAG (mg/dl)	−0.033	0.003	0.161	0.198	0.555	0.834	0.552	1
TST (°C)	−0.009	−0.036	0.19	0.276	0.662	0.435	0.471	0.270	1

correlation is significant at 0.01 level, correlation is significant at 0.05 level. Hip cir: hip circumference (cm), waist cir: waist circumference (cm), SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure, HbA_1c: glycated haemoglobin, FBS: fasting blood sugar, PPBS: postprandial blood sugar, EAG: estimated average glucose, TST: tongue surface temperature at region of interest.