Both cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular comorbidity are related to health status in well-controlled type 2 diabetes patients: a cross-sectional analysis

Table 1 Characteristics of the study population (N=2086)

	n
Age (years)	2086	64.4 ± 8.8
Gender (male)	2086	1240 (59.4%)
Dutch ethnicity	2073	1852 (89.3%)
Educational level	1912
Low		789 (41.3%)
Middle		699 (36.6%)
High		424 (22.2%)
Living alone	2053	399 (19.4%)
BMI (kg/m²)	2039	29.2 ± 4.7
Duration of diabetes in years	2034	5.8 ± 3.7
No comorbidity	2086	1290 (61.8%)
One comorbidity	2086	517 (24.8%)
Two comorbidities	2086	179 (8.6%)
More than two comorbidities	2086	100 (4.8%)
Cardiovascular comorbidity	2086	549 (26.3%)
Non-cardiovascular comorbidity	2086	383 (18.4%)

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