Table 1.

General characteristics of the study subjects

Parameters	Diabetic (n = 426)	Non-diabetic (n = 500)	p value
Gender
Male	228	272	0.108
Female	198	228	0.108
Age (yr)	47.55 ± 12.3	35.78 ± 13.4	0.0001*
Height (ft)	5.50 ± 0.3	5.49 ± 0.59	0.756
Weight (Kg)	68.6 ± 13.83	65.38 ± 13.7	0.0004*
BMI (Kg/m2)	22.7 ± 5.6	21.67 ± 5.3	0.0043*

BMI body mass index, n total number

* Indicates significant differences