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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2020 Jan 20;32(4):e13779. doi: 10.1111/nmo.13779

Table 3. Demographic features and characteristics of DM patients.

Characteristic Normal, N (%) (n=152) Rapid, N (%) (n=27)
Demographics and lifestyle
 Women 107 (70%) 20 (74%)
 Age, mean ± SD, year 50 ± 14 50 ± 15
 BMI, mean ± SD, kg/ma 28 ± 9 30 ± 10
  Overweight 31 (20%) 6 (22%)
  Obese 59 (55%) 14 (52%)
DM-related variables
 Type 1 DM 55 (36%) 9 (33%)
 Duration of Type 1 DMa 21 ± 12 33 ± 17
 Duration of Type 2 DMa 12.1 ± 9.1 11.1 ± 9.01
 HbA1c levels, mean ± SEMa 7.6 ± 1.6 7.25 ± 1.8
Treatment of DM
 No medication 8 (5%) 2 (7%)
 Only insulin therapy* 89 (59%) 9 (33%)
 Only oral hypoglycemic agents (excluding GLP1 agonists, DPP IV inhibitors, pramlintide) 38 (25%) 11 (41%)
 Only GLP1 agonists, DPP IV inhibitors, or pramlintide 11 (7%) 3 (11%)
More than one medication 6 (4%) 2 (8%)
*

P<0.05 for univariate associations among groups

a

Values for BMI, duration of DM and HbA1c were missing in 2, 32 and 23 patients respectively.