Table 1.
clinical and demographical characteristics of the enrolled individuals
| Patients with type 2 diabetes (n = 39) |
Control subjects (n = 39) |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 61 years (55–64 years) | 59 years (52–61 years) | 0.187 |
| Sex | |||
| Males | 24 | 18 | 0.256 |
| Females | 15 | 21 | |
| Smoke | |||
| Non-smokers | 31 | 30 | 0.876 |
| Smokers | 8 | 9 | |
| Alcohol | |||
| Never/occasionally | 37 | 35 | 0.726 |
| Habitually | 2 | 4 | |
| Allergy | |||
| None | 28 | 30 | 0.796 |
| Respiratory | 8 | 6 | |
| Medication | 2 | 2 | |
| Food | 1 | 1 | |
| Diabetic complications | |||
| None | 22 | / | / |
| Nephropathy | 9 | ||
| Macroangiopathy | 7 | ||
| Neuropathy | 5 | ||
| Retinopathy | 3 | ||
The results are reported as median and confidence interval (in brackets). The results of Mann–Whitney and Fisher tests are reported