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Table 1 Table showing the demographic, clinical and surgical data of the population studied

From: The neglected perioperative population of undiagnosed diabetics – a retrospective cohort study

Demographics

Known DM (n = 602)

Undiagnosed DM (n = 155)

No DM (n = 1349)

p-value

Male (%)

324 (53.8)

91 (58.7)

712 (52.8)

0.37

Age, mean

64.9 (SDb 10.3)

64.7 (SD 11.3)

63.0 (SD 10.9)

< 0.001

Ethnicity

Chinese (n = 1479) (%)

356 (59.1)

95 (61.3)

1028 (76.2)

< 0.001

 

Malay (n = 402) (%)

148 (24.6)

41 (26.5)

213 (15.8)

 

Indian (n = 178) (%)

81 (13.5)

17 (11.0)

80 (5.9)

 

Others (n = 47) (%)

17 (2.8)

2 (1.3)

28 (2.1)

BMI, mean

26.5 (SD 5.67)

25.6 (SD 6.2)

24.9 (SD 5.1)

< 0.001

Type of Anaesthesia

GA (%)

420 (77.9)

124 (86.1)

1153 (90.0)

< 0.001

 

RA (%)

71 (13.2)

15 (10.4)

87 (6.8)

 

MAC (%)

48 (8.9)

5 (3.5)

41 (3.2)

Emergency case (%)

213 (35.4)

63 (40.6)

315 (23.4)

< 0.001

ASAa Score

ASA 1 (%)

NA

16 (10.3)

174 (12.9)

< 0.001

 

ASA 2 (%)

253 (42.0)

45 (29.0)

655 (48.6)

 

ASA 3 (%)

321 (53.3)

71 (45.8)

445 (33.0)

 

ASA 4 (%)

44 (7.3)

23 (14.8)

74 (5.5)

John Hopkins Surgical

Severity Criteria

1 (%)

258 (43.3)

45 (30.0)

382 (28.6)

< 0.001

 

2 (%)

262 (44.0)

51 (34.0)

728 (54.5)

 

3 (%)

76 (12.8)

54 (36.0)

225 (16.9)

  1. aASA American Society of Anesthesiologists classification
  2. bSD Standard deviation
  3. By definition of ASA, diabetics are considered to be > ASA 2