Diabetes-Related Distress Assessment among Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Table 6

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

Clinical/laboratory variables	Result of the total score (regimen-related domain)
	Yes	No	value
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Age	50 ± 15	59 ± 13	<0.001
Duration of DM in years	11.47 ± 7.81	14.48 ± 8.91	0.026
Weight in kg	86.52 ± 21.94	83.27 ± 17.35	0.271
Height in meter	1.636 ± 0.096	1.640 ± 0.097	0.821
BMI	31.75 ± 10.66	30.81 ± 6.52	0.586
Interval between visits	5.4 ± 1.5	4.2 ± 1.8	<0.001
DBP	76.85 ± 10.66	74.98 ± 11.29	0.279
SBP	131.28 ± 19.41	131.86 ± 20.70	0.854
HabA1c	9.19 ± 1.93	8.55 ± 1.95	0.071
Triglyceride	1.78 ± 1.34	1.57 ± 1.17	0.345
Cholesterol	4.76 ± 0.95	4.40 ± 1.09	0.071
HDL	1.12 ± 0.31	1.03 ± 0.29	0.105
LDL	2.93 ± 0.80	2.64 ± 0.93	0.098
Microalbuminuria	33.96 ± 123.04	20.00 ± 79.28	0.402

Statistically significant difference ().