Research Article
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 |
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Statistically significant difference ( ). |