Cost-Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery versus Medication Therapy for Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in China: A Markov Analysis

Table 2

Baseline values for patients in the bariatric surgery therapy group and the conventional medication therapy group.

	Unmatched cohort		Propensity score-matched cohort
Demographic information	Bariatric surgery therapy group	Conventional medication therapy group	value	Bariatric surgery therapy group	Conventional medication therapy group	value
Demographic
Sample size (patients)	134	81		41	41
Sex (female)	65	27	0.029^†	24	22	0.66^†
Age (years)^a			0.040^‡			0.60^‡
BMI (kg/m^2)^a			0.001^‡			0.07^‡
Clinical data
Fasting plasma glucose^a			0.021^‡			0.52^‡
Glycated haemoglobin^a			0.033^‡			0.13^‡
Diabetes status (after 2 years)
No. with T2DM remission (patients)	71	4	<0.0001^†	22	1	<0.0001^†
No. with T2DM (patients)	63	77		19	40
No. of death (patients)	0	0		0	0

^aValues are presented as the . ^†2 test; ^‡-test.