Psoriatic Arthritis and Diabetes: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Descriptive characteristics of the study population, by gender (𝑁=1,647).

	Females (𝑁=900)			Males (𝑁=747)
Characteristic	Psoriatic arthritis patients (𝑁=300)	Patients without psoriatic arthritis (𝑁=600)	𝑃 value	Psoriatic arthritis patients (𝑁=249)	Patients without psoriatic arthritis (𝑁=498)	𝑃 value
Age (years)
Mean ± SD	54.9±14.4	54.4±13.9		53.4±14.9	53.0±14.3
Median	56	58	0.422	52	53	0.369
Range	22–92	21–97		21–92	23–101
SES (𝑁=1625)
Low	104 (33.5%)	160 (27.0%)		89 (36.0%)	159 (32.3%)
Intermediate	130 (44.4%)	242 (40.8%)	<0.001	107 (43.3%)	194 (39.4%)	0.083
High	59 (20.1%)	191 (32.2%)		51 (20.6%)	139 (28.3%)
Hypertension	110 (36.7%)	159 (26.5%)	<0.001	79 (31.7%)	122 (24.5%)	0.036
Dyslipidemia	147 (49.0%)	266 (44.3%)	0.002	114 (45.8%)	170 (34.1%)	0.002
Current smoker	55 (18.3%)	81 (13.5%)	0.006	70 (28.1%)	110 (22.1%)	0.070
Obesity	85 (28.3%)	109 (18.2%)	<0.001	44 (17.7%)	67 (13.5%)	0.137
Diabetes	56 (18.7%)	62 (10.3%)	<0.001	28 (11.2%)	56 (11.2%)	1.000

SES: socioeconomic status.