Research Article
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 |
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Statistically significant difference ( ). |