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. 2014 Sep 16;8:1229–1237. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S66655

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Variable Frequencya N (%) Nonadherentb % P-valuec
Sex 0.9004
 Female 222 (63.2) 59.0
 Male 129 (36.8) 59.7
Age group 0.0241
 ≤50 114 (33.7) 65.8
 51–60 132 (39.1) 62.1
 ≥61 92 (27.2) 47.8
Area of residence 0.3320
 Urban 199 (56.9) 61.3
 Peri-urban 67 (19.1) 62.7
 Rural village 70 (20.0) 52.9
 Outside province 14 (4.0) 42.9
Number of hypoglycemic agents 0.1702
 1 187 (54.0) 55.6
 2 or 3 159 (46.0) 62.9
Number of comedications 0.3530
 0 131 (37.3) 64.1
 1 119 (33.9) 59.7
 2 60 (17.1) 53.3
 ≥3 41 (11.7) 51.2
A1C at baseline 0.0105
 ≤7% (53.0 mmol/mol) 63 (18.9) 55.6
 >7%–10% (85.8 mmol/mol) 164 (49.1) 53.1
 >10% 107 (32.0) 71.0

Notes: N=351.

a

May not add up to the total because of missing data.

b

Numbers in the “Nonadherent” column show the percentage of each row who were not completely (100%) adherent to their medications.

c

P-values are calculated from the chi-square statistic.

Abbreviation: A1C, glycated hemoglobin.