Table 1 Analysis of prevalence and risk factors for single diseases(partial).

From: Investigation of multimorbidity patterns and association rules in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus using association rules mining algorithm

Feature

(%)

DPN (%)

P

value

DPVD (%)

P

value

Hypertension (%)

P

value

Fatty Liver

P

value

DN (%)

P

value

Gender

  

0.002

 

0.322

 

0.029

 

0.644

 

< 0.001

Male

3514(60.2)

3140(89.4)

 

2824(80.4)

 

1596(45.4)

 

1293(36.8)

 

1234(35.1)

 

Female

2324(39.8)

2134(91.8)

 

1843(79.3)

 

1123(48.3)

 

869(37.4)

 

712(30.6)

 

Age

  

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

18 ~ 44

726(12.4)

538a(74.1)

 

277a(38.2)

 

115a (15.8)

 

399a (55.0)

 

150a (20.7)

 

45 ~ 54

1155(19.8)

1014b(87.8)

 

866b(75.0)

 

401b (34.7)

 

475b (41.1)

 

343b (29.7)

 

55 ~ 64

1930(33.1)

1790c(92.8)

 

1648c(85.4)

 

883c(45.8)

 

700c (36.3)

 

619b (32.1)

 

65~

2027(34.7)

1932d(95.3)

 

1876d(92.6)

 

1320d (65.1)

 

588d (29.0)

 

834c (41.1)

 

BMI

  

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

0.056

Lean

366(6.3)

342a(93.4)

 

291a(79.5)

 

106a(29.0)

 

26a(7.1)

 

140(38.3)

 

Normal

3076(52.7)

2812a(91.4)

 

2536a(82.4)

 

1364b(44.3)

 

839b(27.3)

 

1038(33.8)

 

Overweight

1740(29.8)

1559a(89.6)

 

1391a(79.9)

 

886c(50.9)

 

876c(50.3)

 

554(31.8)

 

Obese

656(11.2)

561b(85.5)

 

449b(68.5)

 

363c(55.3)

 

421d(64.2)

 

214(32.6)

 

Marital status

  

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

0.040

 

0.165

 

0.209

Married

5446(93.3)

4963(91.1)

 

4420(81.2)

 

2556(46.9)

 

2004(36.8)

 

1804(33.1)

 

Others

392(6.7)

311(79.3)

 

247(63.0)

 

163(41.6)

 

158(40.3)

 

142(36.2)

 

Total

5838(100)

5274(90.3)

 

4667(79.9)

 

2719(46.6)

 

2162(37.0)

 

1946(33.3)

 
  1. DPN: diabetic peripheral neuropathy; DPVD: diabetic peripheral vascular disease; DN: diabetic nephropathy; Others in marital status include divorced, widowed, unmarried, and unknown marital status. Superscripts a, b, c, d are used to indicate significant differences between groups. If two groups have different superscripts, it means there is a significant difference between them (To control the errors caused by multiple comparisons, we adopted the Bonferroni correction method, dividing the original significance level (α = 0.05) by the number of tests to obtain the corrected threshold α′ =0.05/6 = 0.0083).