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).