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. 2006 Mar 22;4:17. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-17

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics Stratified by Disease Group (N = 113,587)

Diabetes and Cancer (*N = 207)) Diabetes (*N = 4,394) Cancer (*N = 1,692) No Diabetes or Cancer (*N = 107,295)
HUI3 (Overall Score)**
 Mean (Standard Deviation, SD) 0.67 (0.30) 0.78 (0.27) 0.78 (0.25) 0.89 (0.18)
 Median (Range) 0.78 (-0.24 – 1.0) 0.91 (-0.31 – 1.0) 0.91 (-0.21 – 1.0) 0.97 (-0.31 – 1.0)
Age (Years), (%)
12–29 Years 2 (1.0%) 144 (3.3%) 81 (4.8%) 32,018 (29.8)
30–44 Years 4 (1.9%) 554 (12.6%) 189 (11.2%) 32,708 (30.5%)
45–59 Years 55 (26.7%) 1,325 (30.2%) 446 (26.4%) 24,933 (23.2%)
≥60 Years 145 (70.4%) 2,370 (53.9%) 976 (57.7%) 17,636 (16.4%)
Men, (%) 114 (55.3%) 2,256 (51.3%) 740 (43.7%) 51,726 (48.2%)
BMI, (%)
 <30 139 (67.1%) 2,873 (65.4%) 1,442 (85.2%) 93,511 (87.2%)
 ≥30 68 (32.9%) 1,520 (34.6%) 250 (14.8%) 13,784 (12.8%)
Marital Status, (%)
 Married/Common Law, (%) 147 (71.4%) 2,933 (66.8%) 1,143 (67.6%) 61,595 (57.4%)
 Widowed/Separated/Divorced/Single 59 (28.6%) 1,461 (33.2%) 549 (32.4%) 45,700 (42.6%)
Physical Activity Level, (%)
 Active 29 (14.0%) 663 (15.1%) 330 (19.5%) 25,257 (23.5%)
 Moderately Active 26 (12.6%) 937 (21.3%) 368 (21.8%) 25,542 (23.8%)
 Inactive 152 (73.4%) 2,794 (63.6%) 993 (58.7%) 56,496 (52.7%)
Education Level, (%)
 <Than Secondary 95 (45.9%) 1,806 (41.1%) 544 (32.2%) 29,837 (27.8%)
 Secondary Graduate 21 (10.1%) 743 (16.9%) 313 (18.5%) 20,204 (18.8%)
 Other Post-Secondary 14 (6.8%) 270 (6.1%) 95 (5.6%) 9,151 (8.5%)
 Post-Secondary Graduate 77 (37.2%) 1,574 (35.8%) 740 (43.7%) 48,102 (44.8%)
Smoking Status, (%)
 Daily 38 (18.4%) 734 (16.7%) 271 (16.0%) 23,527 (21.9%)
 Occasionally 3 (1.4%) 117 (2.7%) 51 (3.0%) 5,066 (4.7%)
 Not At All 166 (80.2%) 3,542 (80.6%) 1,369 (81.0%) 78,703 (73.4%)
Depressed, (%) 10 (4.8%) 342 (7.8%) 212 (12.5%) 7,837 (7.3%)
Number of Chronic Conditions, (%)
 0 8 (3.9%) 675 (15.4%) 305 (18.0%) 40,775 (38.0%)
 1 26 (12.6%) 1,002 (22.8%) 360 (21.3%) 29,471 (27.5%)
 2 30 (14.6%) 864 (19.7%) 314 (18.6%) 17,977 (16.8%)
 ≥3 142 (68.9%) 1,853 (42.2%) 712 (42.1%) 19,072 (17.8%)

*Unweighted N (All other values in the table are weighted).

**P < 0.0001 for Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

P < 0.0001 for Chi-square test