Table 6.

The average value of blood glucose in female vs. male in both groups

COPD Group	Gender	Descriptive statistic glycaemia		p-value
		Max ± SD	Min - Max
Severe	Female n=28	5.54 ±1.0	4.6 – 7.9	*p = 0.5
	Male n=36	5.68 ± 0.9	4.7 – 8.6
Very severe	Female n=6	6.03 ± 1.3	4.7 – 7.7	*p = 0.2
	Male n=30	8.0 ± 3.6	4.5 – 15.3

^*p (Student-s t-test);

^**p (Mann-Whitney U test).