Study on the TCM Syndromes Evolution and Chinese Herbal Characteristics of Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Different Courses of Disease in TCM “Heat Stage”: A Real-World Study

Table 1

Basic information of patients.

Basic information	Classification	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	χ^2 value	value
Gender	Male	76 (33.33%)	49 (21.49%)	23 (10.09%)	0.293	0.864
	Female	42 (18.42%)	24 (10.53%)	14 (6.14%)
Age	(18∼40)	38 (16.67%)	6 (2.63%)	0 (0%)	40.769	<0.001
	(40∼60)	57 (25%)	42 (18.42%)	14 (6.14%)
	≥60	23 (10.09%)	25 (10.96%)	23 (10.09%)
BMI	18.5∼23.9	26 (16.99%)	15 (9.8%)	3 (1.96%)	4.174	0.383
	24.0∼27.9	36 (23.53%)	19 (12.42%)	13 (8.5%)
	≥28	19 (12.42%)	15 (9.8%)	7 (4.58%)

BMI: body mass index. The classification criteria come from the Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Overweight and Obesity in Chinese Adults [19]: BMI = 24 is the limit of overweight for Chinese adults, and BMI ≥ 28 is the limit of obesity. BMI records of 75 patients were missing in this study.