TABLE 2.
Determinants of resistance to insulin therapy in multivariate analysis.
| Variable | Univariate |
Multivariate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p | OR | CI 95% | p | OR adjusted | CI 95% | |
| Age (year) | ||||||
| ≥ 50 | - | 1.00 | - | - | 1.00 | - |
| < 50 | 0.015 | 1.63 | 1.38–3.17 | 0.045 | 2.05 | 1.98–4.27 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | - | 1.00 | - | - | 1.00 | - |
| Female | 0.041 | 1.62 | 1.72–2.21 | 0.184 | 1.53 | 0.82–2.89 |
| DM complication | ||||||
| No | - | 1.00 | - | - | 1.00 | - |
| Yes | <0.001 | 3.28 | 1.82–5.92 | 0.001 | 3.33 | 1.68–6.60 |
| Knowledge of side effects | ||||||
| No | - | 1.00 | - | - | 1.00 | - |
| Yes | 0.013 | 1.75 | 1.84–3.63 | 0.683 | 1.22 | 0.48–3.12 |
| Blurred vision | ||||||
| No | - | 1.00 | - | - | 1.00 | - |
| Yes | 0.018 | 4.24 | 1.18–9.49 | 0.319 | 2.74 | 0.38–9.77 |
| Knowledge of insulin therapy | ||||||
| Yes | - | 1.00 | - | - | 1.00 | - |
| No | 0.004 | 2.25 | 1.72–3.46 | 0.04 | 1.96 | 1.03–3.71 |
| TTT cost | ||||||
| Affordable | - | 1.00 | - | - | 1.00 | - |
| Unaffordable | 0.003 | 2.93 | 1.46–5.88 | 0.03 | 2.32 | 1.08–4.95 |
DM, diabetes mellitus; TTT, treatment; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.