Diabetes-Related Distress Assessment among Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Table 5

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

Clinical/laboratory variables	Result of the total score (physician-related domain)
	Yes	No	value
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Age	61 ± 15	58 ± 13	0.225
Duration of DM in years	17.69 ± 9.15	13.89 ± 8.77	0.014
Weight in kg	83.90 ± 20.00	83.49 ± 17.59	0.905
Height in meter	1.599 ± 0.095	1.642 ± 0.096	0.021
BMI	32.27 ± 6.82	30.82 ± 6.98	0.298
Interval between visits	5.0 ± 1.5	4.3 ± 1.8	0.023
DBP	72.26 ± 9.57	75.38 ± 11.32	0.113
SBP	137.57 ± 20.56	131.40 ± 20.77	0.040
HabA1c	9.18 ± 2.04	8.57 ± 1.94	0.153
Triglyceride	1.54 ± 1.24	1.60 ± 1.19	0.811
Cholesterol	4.53 ± 0.68	4.44 ± 1.10	0.563
HDL	0.98 ± 0.25	1.04 ± 0.29	0.313
LDL	2.78 ± 0.69	2.66 ± 0.93	0.576
Microalbuminuria	15.33 ± 27.70	21.16 ± 86.20	0.769

Statistically significant difference ().