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. 2017 Jun 1;17:535. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4459-5

Table 2.

Predictors of participant’s knowledge on the main organ involved in diabetes mellitus and its effect on brain

Variable Primary organ dysfunction in DM- Pancreasa DM affect brain as a complicationsa
p OR (95% CI) p OR (95% CI)
Age < 35 years 0.01 0.67 (0.38–0.89) 0.09 1.09 (0.71–1.42)
Male gender 0.89 1.12 (0.83–1.34) 0.34 1.45 (0.56–2.12)
Tertiary level of education 0.02 1.74 (1.32–2.06) 0.16 1.02 (0.67–1.62)
Working fulltime 0.45 1.02 (0.63–1.38) 0.95 0.96 (0.45–1.56)

aPredictors of awareness on organ involved in diabetes mellitus through multivariate logistic regression