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Table 1 Characteristics of patients analyzed

From: Relationships between obesity, glycemic control, and cardiovascular risk factors: a pooled analysis of cross-sectional data from Spanish patients with type 2 diabetes in the preinsulin stage

 

All patients

Mena

Womena

Characteristic

(N = 6442)

(N = 3405)

(N = 3036)

Sex: Female [n (%)]

3036 (47.1)

Current age (years) [mean (SD)]

63.2 (10.9)

62.2 (10.8)

64.3 (11.0)

  < 45 [n (%)]

324 (5.0)

186 (5.5)

138 (4.6)

  45–64 [n (%)]

3074 (47.7)

1756 (51.6)

1317 (43.4)

  65–75 [n (%)]

2209 (34.3)

1082 (31.8)

1127 (37.1)

  > 75 [n (%)]

824 (12.8)

374 (11.0)

450 (14.8)

BMI (kg/m2) [mean (SD)]

30.3 (5.2)

29.5 (4.4)

31.2 (5.9)

  < 25 [n (%)]

769 (11.9)

431 (12.7)

338 (11.1)

  25 to <30 [n (%)]

2672 (41.5)

1604 (47.1)

1068 (35.2)

  30 to <35 [n (%)]

1979 (30.7)

1010 (29.7)

969 (31.9)

  35 to <40 [n (%)]

711 (11.0)

279 (8.2)

431 (14.2)

  ≥ 40 [n (%)]

311 (4.8)

81 (2.4)

230 (7.6)

Current or previous smoker [n (%)]

2007 (31.2)

1720 (50.5)

287 (9.5)

Waist circumference (cm) [mean (SD)]b

101.8 (12.8)

103.7 (12.2)

99.5 (13.1)

Duration of diabetes (years) [mean (SD)]

7.4 (6.7)

7.0 (6.3)

7.8 (7.0)

Patients on oral antidiabetes drugs [n (%)]

6046 (93.9)

3173 (93.2)

2872 (94.6)

HbA1c (%) [mean (SD)]

7.4 (1.5)

7.3 (1.5)

7.4 (1.4)

  ≤ 6.5 [n (%)]

1911 (29.7)

1055 (31.0)

856 (28.2)

  > 6.5–7 [n (%)]

939 (14.6)

490 (14.4)

449 (14.8)

  > 7–8 [n (%)]

1664 (25.8)

870 (25.6)

794 (26.2)

  > 8–9 [n (%)]

997 (15.5)

493 (14.5)

504 (16.6)

  > 9 [n (%)]

767 (11.9)

406 (11.9)

360 (11.9)

FBG (mmol/L) [mean (SD)]

9.0 (2.9)

9.0 (2.9)

9.1 (2.9)

Total cholesterol (mmol/L) [mean (SD)]

5.2 (1.1)

5.1 (1.2)

5.3 (1.1)

HDL-C (mmol/L) [mean (SD)]

1.3 (0.4)

1.2 (0.4)

1.3 (0.4)

LDL-C (mmol/L) [mean (SD)]

3.2 (0.9)

3.1 (0.9)

3.2 (0.9)

Triglycerides (mmol/L) [mean (SD)]

1.9 (1.3)

1.9 (1.5)

1.8 (1.1)

SBP (mmHg) [mean (SD)]

139.1 (17.7)

138.0 (17.1)

140.4 (18.3)

DBP (mmHg) [mean (SD)]

79.7 (10.3)

79.5 (10.3)

80.0 (10.2)

  1. Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; FBG, fasting blood glucose; HbA1c: glycosylated hemoglobin; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP, systolic blood pressure; SD, standard deviation; T2D, type 2 diabetes.
  2. aThe sex of 1 patient was not recorded.
  3. bA total of 3709 patients provided data for this variable.