Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the sample.
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Total (n = 131) |
Controlled (n = 86) |
Uncontrolled (n = 45) |
P | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mean | ±s.d. | mean | ±s.d. | mean | ±s.d. | ||
| Age | 64.0 | ±9.95 | 64.2 | ±10.94 | 63.6 | ±7.84 | 0.759 |
| Duration | 11.9 | ±8.73 | 11.5 | ±8.96 | 12.6 | ±8.31 | 0.498 |
| Homocysteine | 13.3 | ±4.37 | 12.9 | ±3.65 | 13.9 | ±5.49 | 0.278 |
| Cortisol | 13.6 | ±4.52 | 13.5 | ±4.46 | 13.7 | ±4.69 | 0.790 |
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
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| Education | |||||||
| Elementary | 106 | 80.9 | 71 | 82.6 | 35 | 77.8 | 0.791 |
| Secondary | 8 | 6.1 | 5 | 5.8 | 3 | 6.7 | |
| Highest | 17 | 13.0 | 10 | 11.6 | 7 | 15.6 | |
| Occupation | |||||||
| Housekeeping | 49 | 37.4 | 30 | 34.9 | 19 | 42.2 | 0.686 |
| Pensioners | 40 | 30.5 | 26 | 30.2 | 14 | 31.1 | |
| Civil servants | 10 | 7.6 | 8 | 9.3 | 2 | 4.4 | |
| Self-employed | 32 | 24.4 | 22 | 25.6 | 10 | 22.2 | |
Parentheses display the standard deviations.