Diabetes-Related Distress Assessment among Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Table 4

The mean ± SD of age and selected clinical and laboratory variables across the mild-moderate and highly distressed groups (emotional domain).

Clinical/laboratory variables	Result of the total score (emotional domain)
	Yes	No	value
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Age	59 ± 14	58 ± 14	0.641
Duration of DM in years	15.32 ± 9.21	13.53 ± 8.60	0.034
Weight in kg	83.91 ± 17.49	83.04 ± 17.82	0.617
Height in meter	1.613 ± 0.093	1.652 ± 0.97	<0.001
BMI	32.25 ± 6.49	30.12 ± 7.13	0.002
Interval between visits	4.9 ± 1.8	4.1 ± 1.8	<0.001
DBP	75.21 ± 10.89	75.04 ± 11.42	0.873
SBP	134.05 ± 20.92	130.90 ± 20.70	0.110
HabA1c	8.94 ± 2.10	8.47 ± 1.86	0.030
Triglyceride	1.50 ± 0.98	1.64 ± 1.28	0.245
Cholesterol	4.42 ± 0.99	4.45 ± 1.11	0.817
HDL	1.05 ± 0.27	1.04 ± 0.30	0.743
LDL	2.67 ± 0.86	2.67 ± 0.94	0.996
Microalbuminuria	32.72 ± 120.64	15.65 ± 56.75	0.172

Statistically significant difference ().