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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabet Med. 2015 Dec 29;33(8):1133–1139. doi: 10.1111/dme.13032

Table 4.

Single variable and multivariable relationships between 6-min walk distance in meters and HbA1c levels for subjects with diabetes and healthy control subjects

Single variable Multivariable
Mean difference in 6-min walk distance (95% CI) P Mean difference in 6-min walk distance (95% CI) P
HbA1c, per each % increase -15.6 (-19.9 to -11.2) <0.001 -13.4 (-16.9 to -9.9) <0.001
Age per year -3.3 (-4.2 to -2.3) <0.001 -3.1 (-3.9 to -2.4) <0.001
Females (vs males) -54.9 (-74.4 to -35.5) <0.001 -33 (-53.7 to -12.3) 0.002
Height, per cm 3.5 (2.3 to 4.6) <0.001 1.3 (-0.9 to 2.6) 0.04
BMI, per kg/m2 -2.0 (-4.4 to .32) 0.09 -1.2 (-3.0 to 0.7) 0.22
Pulse oximetry, per % 10.3 (2.2 to 18.5) 0.01 1.5 (-4.9 to 7.9) 0.65
Change in heart rate before/after 6- min walk test, per beats/min 3.6 (2.2 to 5.2) <0.001 3.9 (2.7 to 5.0) <0.001