Diabetes-Related Distress Assessment among Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Table 3

The mean ± SD of age and selected clinical and laboratory variables across the mild-moderate and highly distressed groups (total domain).

Clinical/laboratory variables	Result of the total score (total domain)
	Yes	No	value
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Age	53 ± 14	59 ± 14	0.027
Duration of DM in years	14.74 ± 8.06	14.10 ± 8.91	0.696
Weight in kg	87.07 ± 21.11	83.22 ± 17.58	0.270
Height in meter	1.597 ± 0.094	1.642 ± 0.097	0.018
BMI	34.08 ± 7.85	30.65 ± 6.93	0.013
Interval between visits	5.3 ± 1.3	4.3 ± 1.8	<0.001
DBP	74.13 ± 10.64	75.11 ± 11.29	0.647
SBP	129.13 ± 18.11	132.02 ± 20.84	0.459
HabA1c	9.74 ± 1.87	8.56 ± 1.94	0.015
Triglyceride	1.64 ± 1.50	1.59 ± 1.18	0.857
Cholesterol	4.85 ± 0.91	4.42 ± 1.07	0.126
HDL	1.07 ± 0.30	1.04 ± 0.29	0.759
LDL	3.20 ± 0.78	2.65 ± 0.91	0.027
Microalbuminuria	4.25 ± 6.63	21.77 ± 86.46	0.466

Statistically significant difference ().