Table 3.
Characteristics of subjects with diabetes, with and without other chronic medical conditions.
| Co-existing chronic medical conditions among subjects with diabetes | ||||
| Characteristics | No co-existing chronic medical conditions (n = 115) |
Hypertension (n = 115) |
Heart disease (n = 46) |
Musculoskeletal illnesses† (n = 107) |
| Mean age (years) | 48.1 (10.52) | 53.7 (8.46) | 55.5 (7.95) | 53.2 (8.68) |
| Male (%) | 64.3 | 56.5 | 71.7 | 54.2 |
| Ethnicity (%) | ||||
| Chinese | 23.5 | 40.0 | 21.7 | 36.4 |
| Malays | 27.8 | 22.6 | 21.7 | 17.8 |
| Indians | 48.7 | 37.4 | 56.5 | 45.8 |
| Questionnaire language (English) (%) | 86.1 | 73.9 | 91.3 | 76.6 |
| Education (%) | ||||
| ≤ 6 years | 36.5 | 44.3 | 30.4 | 41.1 |
| 7–10 years | 50.4 | 42.6 | 56.5 | 48.6 |
| > 10 years | 13.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 10.3 |