Clinical Study
Breaking the Taboo: Illicit Drug Use among Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of patients with diabetes and controls.
| | Diabetic patients () | Healthy controls () | level |
| Female (%) versus male (%) | 102 (48.8) versus 107 (51.2) | 5982 (50.6) versus 6132 (49.3) | |
| Age (year) Mean ± SD | 16.5 ± 1.0 | 16.9 ± 0.9 | |
| 15-16 years (%) | 98 (47.1) | 6050 (49.9) | |
| 17-18 years (%) | 110 (52.8) | 5055 (50.0) | |
| Diabetes duration (year) Median (interquartile range) | 6 (3–10) | — | |
| HbA1c (%) | | — | | 6–8% | 89 (47) | | | 8–10% | 62 (33) | | | 10–12% | 30 (16) | | | >12% | 8 (4) | | |
| Insulin (units/day) Median (interquartile range) | 50 (30–65) | — | |
| Insulin pump therapy (%) | 79/183 (43) | — | |
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Response rate of 189/209; response rate of 183/209.
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