Prevalence of Chronic Complications, Their Risk Factors, and the Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Attending the Diabetic Clinic at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Sri Lanka

Table 2

Vascular complications by gender.

Disease complication	Overall prevalence	Females	Males	value	Significance
Cardiovascular diseases	318 (10.6%)	211 (9.7%)	107 (13.0%)	7.15	0.007
Stroke	33 (1.1%)	19 (0.8%)	14 (1.8%)	3.81	0.05
PVD	140 (4.7%)	105 (4.8%)	35 (4.2%)	0.81	0.36
Retinopathy	783 (26.1%)	545 (25%)	238 (29%)	2.62	0.10
Neuropathy	1879 (62.6%)	1332 (61.1%)	547 (68.5%)	20.3	0.001
Nephropathy	446/878 (50.8%)	306/631 (51.6%)	136/247 (55%)	2.77	0.96
Diabetic foot	78 (2.6%)	40 (1.8%)	38 (4.7%)	19.45	0.001
Lower extremity amputation	54 (1.3%)	26 (1.2%)	28 (3.4%)	15.09	0.001