TABLE 1.

Subject demographics

Demographic characteristic	Healthy Controls Mean (SD)	People with DM Mean (SD)	P value
Age (years)	40.0 (11.8)	57.0 (10.1)	0.036 *
Height (m)	1.7 (0.1)	1.7 (0.1)	0.117
Weight (kg)	66.1 (13.2)	88.8 (4.3)	0.009 *
Body mass index (kg/m2)	23.5 (2.7)	30.2 (5.6)	0.028 *
Years with diagnosis of DM	n/a	4.1 (5.7)	---
Sex	4 female / 1 male	1 female / 4 males	---
HbA1c	(%) 5.2 (0.2)	8.4 (3.0)	0.009 *
Mean plasma glucose	109.2 (6.2)	193.0 (102.0)	0.014 *
Vibration perception threshold – halluces (V)	11.6 (4.4)	36.4 (16.8)	0.016 *

HbA1c = Hemoglobin A1c blood test

Alpha was set at 0.05.

Asterisk (*) = denotes statistically significant difference between groups.