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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetes Care. 2001 Oct;24(10):1711–1721. doi: 10.2337/diacare.24.10.1711

Table 1.

Selected baseline characteristics and changes in BMI and weight after 1 year of therapy for intensive and conventional treatment groups

Adult women
Adult men
Intensive Conventional Intensive Conventional
n 302 278 317 349
Age (years) 29.0 ± 6.0 28.1 ± 5.9 29.5 ± 5.4 29.3 ± 5.3
Body weight (kg) 63.4 ± 8.6 63.5 ± 8.9 75.6 ± 9.7 78.1 ± 10.5*
   Change at 1 year 3.0 ± 4.1 1.1 ± 3.8 3.6 ± 4.8 1.3 ± 3.7
Height (cm) 164.5 ± 6.2 165.2 ± 5.8 178.6 ± 6.7 178.9 ± 7.2
BMI (kg/m2) 23.4 ± 2.8 23.2 ± 2.9 23.7 ± 2.5 24.3 ± 2.6§
   Change at 1 year 1.1 ± 1.6 0.4 ± 1.4 1.1 ± 1.5 0.4 ± 1.2
HbA1c (%) 9.0 ± 1.5 8.9 ± 1.7 8.6 ± 1.4 8.6 ± 1.5
Duration of type 1 diabetes (month) 72.3 ± 52.3 74.3 ± 52.7 74.8 ± 51.2 65.6 ± 47.5
Insulin dose (units · kg−1 · day−1) 0.63 ± 0.20 0.63 ± 0.21 0.63 ± 0.23 0.60 ± 0.20

Values are means ± SD. P values for group differences are from the Wilcoxon’s rank-sum test and were not significant at the 0.05 level except as noted.

*

P = 0.001

P < 0.0001

P < 0.0001 for changes from baseline by the Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test

§

P = 0.0003

P = 0.026.