Table 1.
Characteristics of intervention and control practice populations.
| Patients N |
Male n (%) |
Female n (%) |
Mean age in years (±SD)† |
Mean HbA1c (±SD)† |
Mean SBP∗
(±SD)† |
Mean DBP‡
(±SD)† |
Median duration of disease in years (interquartile range)# |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention | 447 | 228 (51) | 219 (49) | 68.3 (12.7) | 7.4 (1.6) | 132.6 (16.9) | 73.9 (11.3) | 6 (3, 11) |
| Control | 577 | 318 (55) | 259 (45) | 66.1 (12.8) | 7.7 (2.3) | 135.3 (18.3) | 77.2 (11.3) | 7 (2, 11) |
∗Systolic blood pressure.
‡Diastolic blood pressure.
†Age; HbA1c, SBP, and DBP reported as the mean plus or minus (±) SD (standard deviation).
#Duration of disease reported as median (interquartile range).
Number of observations for SBP, DBP and duration of disease was 400 (in the intervention group) and 431 (in the control group).