Table 1.  Characteristics of study subjects before treatment.

No. patients	43
Sex (male/female)	22/21
Age (years)	43.7 ± 13.2
Body mass index (kg/m2)	22.9 ± 2.8
Duration of diabetes (years)	13.0 ± 7.2
Instructed calorie intake (kcal/day)	1633 ± 196
Instructed calorie intake (kcal/kg/day)	27.4 ± 4.2
Daily insulin dosage (U/day)	41.6 ± 17.1
HbA1c (%)	7.68 ± 0.89
Fasting glucose (mg/dL)	217.6 ± 82.1
1 h postprandial glucose (mg/dL)	274.6 ± 91.8
2 h postprandial glucose (mg/dL)	250.7 ± 102.0

Data are number of patients (categorized data) or mean ± SD (quantitative data).