Table 1. Descriptive statistics for qualitative sociodemographic data and comparison between types of participants.

		Control			Diabetic			STS (p-value)
		Count	%\type	%\variable	Count	%\type	%\variable
Gender	M	24	48.00%	47.06%	27	57.45%	52.94%	0.87 (0.352)
	F	26	52.00%	56.52%	20	42.55%	43.48%
Blood Pressure	HBP	9	18.00%	21.95%	32	68.09%	78.05%	24.91 (< 0.001)
	NHP	41	82.00%	73.21%	15	31.91%	26.79%

HBP–High Blood Pressure (subjects with previous diagnose of Arterial Hypertension, and undergoing therapy for that disease); NBP–Normal Blood Pressure (subjects without previous diagnostic of hypertension); STS–Standardized Test Statistic (χ2); %\type is the percentage relative to the total number of controls or diabetic participants, whether %\variable is the percentage relative to the total number of males or females for variable gender, and relative to the total number of hypertensive or normotensive participants for variable blood pressure.