Research Article
Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in a Random Sample of Community Family Practices in Ontario, Canada
Table 3
Patient characteristics.
| | Characteristic () | Value (median; SD) | Range |
| | Mean age at diagnosis in years | | | | Mean duration of diabetes in years (81) | 6.8 (7.0) | 0.6–42.2 | | Mean age at audit in years | 68.0 (69.5, 12.0) | 42.6–89.4 | | Female (96) in % | 49 | |
| | Employment status | Percent () | |
| | Employed | 29.5 | | | Unemployed | 5.3 | | | Retired | 37.9 | | | On disability | 3.2 | | | Not reported | 24.2 | |
| | Age category | Percent () | |
| | <39 | 4.2 | | | 40–44 | 3.1 | | | 45–49 | 8.3 | | | 50–54 | 13.5 | | | 55–59 | 10.4 | | | 60–64 | 15.6 | | | 65–69 | 14.6 | | | 70–74 | 8.3 | | | 75–79 | 15.6 | | | 80–84 | 6.3 | | | 85–89 | 4.2 | | | >90 | 3.1 | |
| | Years since diagnosis of diabetes () | 8.8 (7.0) | 2.2–44.2 |
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