Research Article
Determinants of Diabetic Nephropathy among Diabetic Patients in General Public Hospitals of Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018/19
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants on follow-up at public hospitals of Tigray, Ethiopia, 2019.
| | Variables | Category | Controls (n = 672) | Cases (n = 168) | Total (n = 840) |
| | Age | Mean (±SD) | 45.18 (8.35) | 62.12 (±13.45) | | | Sex | Male | 367 (54.6%) | 86 (51.2%) | 453 (53.9%) | | Female | 305 (45.4%) | 82 (48.8%) | 387 (46.1%) | | Residence | Urban | 371 (55.2%) | 83 (49.4%) | 454 (54%) | | Rural | 301 (44.8%) | 85 (50.6%) | 386 (46%) | | Marital status | Married | 521 (77.5%) | 126 (75%) | 647 (77.0%) | | Single | 43 (6.4%) | 20 (11.9%) | 63 (7.5%) | | Widowed | 48 (7.1%) | 4 (2.4%) | 52 (6.2) | | Divorced | 60 (8.9%) | 18 (10.7%) | 78 (9.3%) | | Educational level | Cannot read and write | 174 (25.9%) | 45 (26.8%) | 219 (26.1%) | | Can read and write | 89 (13.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 89 (10.6) | | Primary y school | 144 (21.4%) | 56 (33.3%) | 200 (23.8%) | | Secondary school | 114 (17.0%) | 37 (22.0%) | 151 (18.0%) | | Colleague and above | 151 (22.5%) | 30 (17.9%) | 181 (21.5%) | | Occupation | House wife | 171 (25.4%) | 32 (19.0%) | 203 (24.2%) | | Governmental employee | 173 (25.75) | 48 (28.6%) | 221 (26.3%) | | Private employee | 193 (28.7%) | 45 (26.8%) | 238 (28.3%) | | Daily worker | 10 (1.5%) | 2 (1.2%) | 12 (1.4%) | | Farmer | 125 (18.6%) | 41 (24.4%) | 166 (19.8%) | | Ethnicity | Tigray | 659 (98.1%) | 168 (100.0%) | 827 (98.5%) | | Amara | 9 (13%) | 0 (0.0%) | 9 (1.1%) | | Oromo | 4 (0.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (0.5%) | | Religion | Orthodox | 646 (96.1%) | 168 (100.0%) | 814 (96.9%) | | Muslim | 26 (3.9%) | 0 (0.0%) | 26 (3.1%) |
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