Quality of Care of Patients with Diabetes in Primary Health Services in Southeast Brazil

Table 3

Characteristics of the patients with diabetes admitted to secondary health care outpatient clinics (,695) subdivided into those referred from the 14 PHCUs studied () and those from other PHCUs (,969).

	Total	PHCUs studied	Other PHCUs	value
Sociodemographic data
Sex (% women)	61.9%	62%	61.9%	0.156
Race (% nonwhite)	55.3%	57.4%	54.5%	0.108
Education level				0.291
Illiterate	6.1%	4.7%	6.7%
Incomplete elementary education	61.6%	64.2%	60.6%
Complete elementary education	15.8%	15.7%	15.8%
Complete secondary education	13.8%	12.7%	14.3%
Complete higher education	1.9%	2.2%	1.8%
Clinical data
Sedentary lifestyle	21.7%	22.3%	21.5%	0.113
Alcohol abuse	13.7%	12.5%	14.1%	0.562
Current smoking	9.0%	9.4%	8.8%	0.433
BMI (mean, kg/m^2)	31,00	31,04	30,91	0.670
Controlled BP	43.9%	42.8%	45.5%	0.202
Insulin use	21%	24.9%	19.5%	0.002
Metformin use	69%	68.2%	69.2%	0.622
Sulphonylurea use (%)	41%	37.3%	42.1%	0.027
ACEI/ARB use (%)	65%	68.7%	63.9%	0.020
Statin use (%)	55%	58.1%	53.4%	0.300
Aspirin use (%)	44%	47.4%	42.3%	0.018
Laboratory data
HbA1c (mean, %)	9.3	9.21	9.31	0.457
LDL (mean, mg/dL)	116	116,71	116.17	0.848
eGFR (mean, mL/min)	78	75.69	78.35	0.127

BMI: body mass index; BP: blood pressure; ACEI: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor; ARB: angiotensin receptor blocker; HbA1c: glycated hemoglobin; LDL: LDL cholesterol; eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate (MDRD).