Table 1 General characteristics of the study participants
From: Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Bangladesh: a prevalence based cost-of-illness study
Variables | n (%) (n = 1253) |
|---|---|
Gender | |
 Male | 681(54.4) |
 Female | 572 (45.6) |
Age (mean ± SD) | 55.1 ± 12.5 |
  ≤ 40 | 176 (14.05) |
 41–60 | 669 (53.39) |
 61–80 | 380 (30.33) |
  ≥ 80 | 28 (2.23) |
Education | |
 Illiterate | 161 (12.8) |
 Primary | 239 (19.1) |
 Secondary | 566 (45.2) |
 Tertiary | 287 (22.9) |
Work status | |
 Unemployed | 36 (32.8) |
 Employed | 411 (40.5) |
 Housewives | 508 (23.8) |
 Retired | 298 (2.9) |
Area of residence | |
 Rural | 174 (13.9) |
 Semi-urban | 162 (12.9) |
 Urban | 917 (73.2) |
Monthly household income (US$) | |
  ≤ 250 | 447 (35.7) |
 251–750 | 497 (39.7) |
 751 and above | 309 (24.6) |
Duration of diabetes (in year) | |
  ≤ 5 | 360 (28.8) |
 6–10 | 348 (27.7) |
  ≥ 11 | 545 (43.5) |
Mode of treatment | |
 OHA | 432 (34.5) |
 Insulin | 87 (6.9) |
 Insulin + OHA | 734 (58.6) |
Family history of diabetes | 734 (58.7) |
 Yes | 433 (34.6) |
 No | 820 (65.4) |
HbA1c (%) | |
 Good (≤6.9) | 182 (18.2) |
 Fair (7–7.9) | 198 (19.8) |
 Poor (≥8) | 621 (62.0) |
Number of complicationa | |
 None | 458 (36.6) |
 One or two | 613 (48.9) |
 Three or more | 182 (14.5) |
History of co-morbidity | |
 None | 296 (23.6) |
 Hypertension | 524 (41.8) |
 Dyslipidaemia | 151 (12.0) |
 Hypertension + dyslipidaemia | 283 (22.6) |