Table 4. General characteristics of non-diabetic patients in this cohort.
Statistical analysis of age revealed that both groups conformed to a normal distribution and the variance tests were not homogeneous. Therefore, Welch’s adjusted unpaired t-test was selected. For other factors, a chi-square test was selected.
| Entire cohort (n = 112) |
Evaluated by using MMSE-2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without CI (n = 95) |
With CI (n = 17) |
χ2/t | p | ||
| Sex (men, %) | 81 (72.3%) | 72 (75.8%) | 9 (52.9%) | 3.761 | 0.076 |
| Age (median) | 60.72 ± 11.907 | 61.09 ± 12.083 | 58.65 ± 10.977 | 0.779 | 0.438 |
| Education (PSE, %) | 51 (45.5%) | 41 (43.2%) | 10 (58.8%) | 1.427 | 0.232 |
| Smoke | 35 (31.3%) | 32 (33.7%) | 3 (17.6%) | 1.726 | 0.189 |
| Hyperlipidemia | 38 (33.9%) | 30 (31.6%) | 8 (47.1%) | 1.541 | 0.214 |
| Hypertension (%) | 73 (65.2%) | 60 (63.2%) | 13 (81.5%) | 1.126 | 0.289 |
Note:
PSE: post-secondary education. MMSE: Mini-mental State Examination. CI: cognitive impairment.