Table 1.

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of the postmenopausal female patients with type 2 diabetes (n = 404) who participated in this study to measure the use of two screening tools, the osteoporosis self-assessment tool for Asians and the osteoporosis screening tool for Chinese women, compared with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in the diagnosis of osteoporosis.

Characteristic	Mean ± SD
Age, years	69.0 ± 12.2
Body weight, kg	59.2 ± 10.1
Height, cm	157.6 ± 9.1
Fasting blood glucose, mmol/l	10.5 ± 3.3
Plasma glucose at 2 h after meal, mmol/l	19.3 ± 5.7
Glycosylated haemoglobin, %	8.6 ± 1.9