Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the study participants

Parameter	Sage group	Placebo group
Gender	21 males, 29 females	22 males, 28 females
Age (years)	54.77± 4.82	52.57± 5.69
Duration of diabetes mellitus type 2 (years)	10.6± 3.6	9.8± 4.2
Where appropriate, values are given as mean± standard deviation.