RESULTS

Baseline characteristics

Of the 102 individuals, 61 were female (59.8%) with a male to female sex ratio of 1:1.5 and the mean age was 58 ± 11.7 years. More than half of the population had hypertension associated to T2DM, precisely 59.8% of the subjects. The mean duration of diabetes was 7.4 ± 6.2 years and 29 patients (28.4%) presented micro vascular complications of diabetes. About ¾ of the study population (77.9%) had a treatment regimen including at least one oral antidiabetic drugs and slightly more than ¼ (28%) had insulin in their treatment. The study population was globally in overweight with a mean body mass index (BMI) of 28.9 ± 5.6 kg/m² (Table I).