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[Case control study of the relationship between type A character and type II diabetes mellitus]
Objective:
To explore the relationship between type A character and type II diabetes mellitus.
Methods:
A frequency matched case control study based on hospital involving 185 newly diagnosed type II diabetics, 201 control cases without type II diabetes mellitus, and 197 healthy people was carried out in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, using type A character questionnaire and unified questionnaire. Nonconditional univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used with the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for Windows release 8.0.
Results:
The score of TH (time hurry), CH (competition and hostility), and the sum of TH and CH of the type II diabetes mellitus cases were significantly higher than those of the control cases (P < 0.01). Compared with B-type character, type A character (OR = 2.59, 95% CI: 1.62 approximately 4.13) was more significantly associated with type II diabetes mellitus after adjustment of occupation, education, family history of diabetes mellitus, waist to hip ratio (WHR), smoking, drinking, dietary factors, leisure time physical activity and hypertension.
Conclusion:
Type A character may be one of the risk factors of type II diabetes mellitus.
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