Prognostic value of physicians' assessment of compliance regarding all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes: primary care follow-up study

Table 2 All cause mortality according to various sociodemographic and medical factors

	Died during follow-up
	(n/N)^a	%	p-value
Total	48/1014	4.7
Patient type
- Patients presenting at office	24/882	2.7
- Care home or visited patients	24/132	18.2	< 0.0001
Gender
- Male	26/458	5.7
- Female	22/551	4.0	0.2
Age (years)
- 40 – 59	1/214	4.7
- 60 – 69	9/342	2.6
- 70 – 79	16/324	4.9
- 80 +	22/131	16.8	< 0.0001^b
Family status
- single	4/50	8.0
- married	22/626	3.5
- widowed	22/246	8.9
- divorced	0/34	0	0.004^b
Time since diagnosis of diabetes (years)
- < 1 year	0/71	0
- 1 to 4 years	9/270	3.3
- 5 to 10 years	17/328	5.2
- > 10 years	21/305	6.9	0.04^b
Macrovascular complications at baseline
- no	12/625	1.9
- yes	36/398	9.3	< 0.0001
Microvascular complications at baseline ^c
- no	25/718	3.5
- yes	23/296	7.8	0.005

^a numbers do not always add up to total due to missing information in few items
^b Fisher's Exact Test
^c (neuropathological complications not included as difficult to assess in the context of this study in primary care)

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