Research Article
Diabetes-Related Distress Assessment among Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Table 5
The mean ± SD of age and selected clinical and laboratory variables across the mild-moderate and highly distressed groups (physician-related domain).
| Clinical/laboratory variables | Result of the total score (physician-related domain) | Yes | No | value | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD |
| Age | 61 ± 15 | 58 ± 13 | 0.225 | Duration of DM in years | 17.69 ± 9.15 | 13.89 ± 8.77 | 0.014 | Weight in kg | 83.90 ± 20.00 | 83.49 ± 17.59 | 0.905 | Height in meter | 1.599 ± 0.095 | 1.642 ± 0.096 | 0.021 | BMI | 32.27 ± 6.82 | 30.82 ± 6.98 | 0.298 | Interval between visits | 5.0 ± 1.5 | 4.3 ± 1.8 | 0.023 | DBP | 72.26 ± 9.57 | 75.38 ± 11.32 | 0.113 | SBP | 137.57 ± 20.56 | 131.40 ± 20.77 | 0.040 | HabA1c | 9.18 ± 2.04 | 8.57 ± 1.94 | 0.153 | Triglyceride | 1.54 ± 1.24 | 1.60 ± 1.19 | 0.811 | Cholesterol | 4.53 ± 0.68 | 4.44 ± 1.10 | 0.563 | HDL | 0.98 ± 0.25 | 1.04 ± 0.29 | 0.313 | LDL | 2.78 ± 0.69 | 2.66 ± 0.93 | 0.576 | Microalbuminuria | 15.33 ± 27.70 | 21.16 ± 86.20 | 0.769 |
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