Table 6.

QuickDASH Results in Patients with and without Diabetes Divided by Sex and Operated on with Simple Decompression for Ulnar Nerve Entrapment

QuickDASH Score	Men without Diabetes (n = 513)	Men with Diabetes (n = 89)	P	Women without Diabetes (n = 508)	Women with Diabetes (n = 57)	P
Preoperative	41 (25 to 59) (n = 179)	50 (27 to 66) (n = 24)	0.36	57 (43 to 70) (n = 167)	64 (32 to 68) (n = 19)	0.92
Postoperative at 3 months	23 (9 to 41) (n = 116)	41 (19 to 55) (n = 17)	0.03	34 (14 to 59) (n = 131)	43 (11 to 61) (n = 19)	0.67
Postoperative at 12 months	41 (18 to 61) (n = 100)	43 (25 to 61) (n = 23)	0.03	41 (18 to 61) (n = 129)	27 (9 to 53) (n = 15)	0.18
Change 0–12 months	8.5 (−3 to 21) (n = 42)	−2 (−11 to 9) (n = 7)	0.089	16 (5 to 27) (n = 46)	5 (1 to 31) (n = 5)	0.38

Diabetes includes both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Numbers presented as median [interquartile range (IQR)].

Boldface p-values <0.05 are considered statistically significant.