Table 2.
Percentage of participants who indicated that diabetes mellitus can lead to a certain disease by subjective level of knowledge about diabetes mellitus: men (n 1935) and women (n 2065) with and without diabetes mellitus; Austria, August/September 2009
| Men with diabetes (n 127) | Women with diabetes (n 165) | Men without diabetes (n 1755) | Women without diabetes (n 1830) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‘Very bad’ or ‘rather bad’ | ‘Very good’ or ‘rather good’ | P | ‘Very bad’ or ‘rather bad’ | ‘Very good’ or ‘rather good’ | P | ‘Very bad’ or ‘rather bad’ | ‘Very good’ or ‘rather good’ | P | ‘Very bad’ or ‘rather bad’ | ‘Very good’ or ‘rather good’ | P | |
| Bad healing wounds | 46·2 | 84·2 | <0·001 | 78·7 | 92·6 | 0·009 | 50·6 | 78·4 | <0·001 | 62·8 | 87·7 | <0·001 |
| Eye diseases | 68·0 | 85·3 | 0·044 | 60·0 | 94·8 | <0·001 | 47·9 | 74·4 | <0·001 | 63·3 | 84·8 | <0·001 |
| Vessel diseases | 19·2 | 67·3 | <0·001 | 41·4 | 83·7 | <0·001 | 25·6 | 50·7 | <0·001 | 31·3 | 57·8 | <0·001 |
| Atherosclerosis | 28·0 | 22·8 | 0·583 | 6·9 | 29·9 | 0·010 | 5·6 | 20·6 | <0·001 | 5·8 | 19·8 | <0·001 |
| Stroke | 34·6 | 62·4 | 0·011 | 30·0 | 63·0 | 0·001 | 28·9 | 46·6 | <0·001 | 27·9 | 46·1 | <0·001 |