Iranian Patients Require More Pertinent Care to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Complications

Table 3

Patterns of the type 2 diabetes related complications in the studied patients.

Variables	Number (%)
	Male	Female	Total
Presence of diabetes related complications	48 (70.6)	141 (84.9)	189 (80.8)
Presence of two or more concurrent diabetes complications	18 (26.5)	115 (69.3)	133 (70.37)
Time of the diabetes related complication(s) diagnosis
Before being diagnosed with diabetes	19 (27.9)	43 (25.9)	62 (32.8)
After being diagnosed with diabetes	29 (42.6)	98 (59.0)	127 (67.2)
Type of diabetes related complication(s)
Neuropathy	45 (66.2)	97 (58.4)	142 (75.0)
Retinopathy	21 (30.9)	57 (34.3)	78 (41.4)
Cardiovascular complications	30 (44.1)	10 (6.0)	40 (21.1)
Foot ulcers	7 (10.3)	3 (1.8)	10 (5.1)