Table 3.
Comparison for type 2 diabetes patients with HbA1c higher and lower than 53 mmol/mol (7%).
| Type 2 diabetes = present (n = 1,620) | HbA1c<53 mmol/mol (7%) (n = 979) |
HbA1c≥53 mmol/mol (7%) (n = 641) |
MD | F 1;1615 | p | 95% CI (MD) | |d| | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||||||
| Phonological verbal fluency of letter P: total | 11.90 | 4.44 | 11.35 | 4.35 | 0.55 | 7.16 | 0.036* | 0.15 | 0.95 | 0.12 |
| Semantic verbal fluency of animals: total | 15.68 | 4.71 | 15.38 | 4.84 | 0.30 | 1.82 | 0.269 | −0.14 | 0.74 | 0.06 |
| Trail Making Test: A, total time (seconds) | 54.32 | 28.45 | 53.92 | 27.86 | 0.40 | 0.09 | 0.807 | −2.20 | 3.00 | 0.01 |
| Trail Making Test: B, total time (seconds) | 129.88 | 69.78 | 132.51 | 68.98 | −2.63 | 0.68 | 0.507 | −8.90 | 3.64 | 0.04 |
| Digit: forward score | 8.76 | 2.48 | 8.54 | 2.41 | 0.22 | 2.50 | 0.244 | −0.05 | 0.49 | 0.09 |
| Digit: backwards core | 5.20 | 2.25 | 4.87 | 1.93 | 0.33 | 8.13 | 0.035* | 0.10 | 0.56 | 0.16 |
| Digit: forward Span | 5.68 | 1.39 | 5.52 | 1.29 | 0.16 | 2.72 | 0.244 | −0.03 | 0.34 | 0.12 |
| Digit: backwards Span | 3.71 | 1.25 | 3.70 | 1.15 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.888 | −0.15 | 0.18 | 0.01 |
| HbA1c | 6.23 | 0.44 | 7.84 | 0.83 | −1.61 | 257.2 | <0.001* | −1.67 | −1.55 | 2.42 |
Note. SD, standard deviation; MD, mean difference; |d|, Cohen’s-d measuring effect size.
*Bold: significant comparison (0.05 level, including Finner’s correction).
All the results adjusted for sex, age, education and presence of apnea.