Research Article
Cost-Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery versus Medication Therapy for Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in China: A Markov Analysis
Table 2
Baseline values for patients in the bariatric surgery therapy group and the conventional medication therapy group.
| | Unmatched cohort | Propensity score-matched cohort | Demographic information | Bariatric surgery therapy group | Conventional medication therapy group | value | Bariatric surgery therapy group | Conventional medication therapy group | value |
| Demographic | | | | | | | Sample size (patients) | 134 | 81 | | 41 | 41 | | Sex (female) | 65 | 27 | 0.029† | 24 | 22 | 0.66† | Age (years)a | | | 0.040‡ | | | 0.60‡ | BMI (kg/m2)a | | | 0.001‡ | | | 0.07‡ | Clinical data | | | | | | | Fasting plasma glucosea | | | 0.021‡ | | | 0.52‡ | Glycated haemoglobina | | | 0.033‡ | | | 0.13‡ | Diabetes status (after 2 years) | | | | | | | No. with T2DM remission (patients) | 71 | 4 | <0.0001† | 22 | 1 | <0.0001† | No. with T2DM (patients) | 63 | 77 | | 19 | 40 | | No. of death (patients) | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | |
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aValues are presented as the . †2 test; ‡-test. |