MAOA uVNTR Polymorphism Influence on Older Adults Diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus/Systemic Arterial Hypertension

Table 2

The MAOA uVNTR polymorphism’s genotypes frequency distributed according to clinical characteristics in older adults diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM), systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), or both from the Federal District, Brazil.

		MAOA uVNTR polymorphism genotypes
		2R^@ (presumably low activity)		3R^@ (low activity)		4R^@ (high activity)		3R/4R (low activity/high activity)
		N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Biological sex	Female	3	12.5	6	25.0	7	29.2	8	33.3	0.051
	Male	1	6.3	7	43.8	8	50.0	0	0.0
SAH	Yes	3	8.6	11	31.4	13	37.1	8	22.9	0.611
	No	1	20.0	2	40.0	2	40.0	0	0.0
DM	Yes	4	11.4	12	34.3	11	31.4	8	22.9	0.192
	No	0	0.0	1	20.0	4	80.0	0	0.0
Sleep	Normal	3	13.6	7	31.8	9	40.9	3	13.6	0.511
	Difficulty to sleep	1	7.7	5	38.5	3	23.1	4	30.8

Note. ^@ represents the combined female homozygote and male hemizygotes; 2R^@ (female 2R/2R homozygote or male 2R hemizygote); 3R^@ (female 3R/3R homozygote or male 3R hemizygote); 4R^@ (female 4R/4R homozygote or male 4R hemizygote); and represents male hemizygotes.