Table 2.
Relation of gender type and age with the type of diabetes, comorbidities, and HbA1C percentages, descriptive statistics, and bivariate correlations
| Variables | Gender | Age | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| °PMCC | P | PMCC | P | |||
| Type of diabetes | 0.207** | <0.001 | 0.049 | 0.411 | ||
| HbA1C % (ADA standards)# | 0.224** | <0.001 | 0.054 | 0.054 | ||
| Duration of diabetes | 0.057 | 0.336 | 0.126* | 0.033 | ||
| Comorbidities | Frequency | (%) | ||||
| Cerebrovascular attack | 41 | (25.8%) | 0.033 | 0.575 | 0.186** | 0.002 |
| Hypertension | 129 | (81.1%) | -0.094 | 0.114 | 0.146* | 0.014 |
| Congestive cardiac failure | 14 | (8.8%) | 0.311** | <0.001 | -0.068 | 0.249 |
| Benign prostatic Hyperplasia | 7 | (4.4%) | -0.038 | 0.523 | 0.129* | 0.029 |
| Chronic kidney disease | 10 | (6.3%) | 0.085 | 0.15 | -0.014 | 0.813 |
| Dementia | 5 | (3.1%) | 0.013 | 0.821 | -0.002 | 0.98 |
| Ischemic heart disease | 12 | (7.5%) | -0.056 | 0.342 | 0.103 | 0.081 |
| Depression | 5 | (3.1%) | 0.088 | 0.137 | 0.011 | 0.848 |
| Diabetic leg amputation | 3 | (1.9%) | -0.098 | 0.097 | -0.048 | 0.42 |
| Osteoporosis | 3 | (1.9%) | -0.056 | 0.342 | 0.016 | 0.786 |
| Chronic obstructive Pulmonary disease | 2 | (1.3%) | -0.08 | 0.177 | -0.07 | 0.239 |
| Not related complications | 23 | (14.5%) | -0.052 | 0.518 | -0.014 | 0.858 |
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). #American diabetic association. °PMCC: The Product Moment Correlation Coefficient also known as “The Pearson correlation”