American Diabetes Association

Table 2—

Characteristics of women who died during follow-up

	Appropriate insulin users	Insulin restrictors
n	16	10
Age at death	57.7 ± 11	44.7 ± 11^*
Diabetes duration at death	33.2 ± 12	26.5 ± 11
Baseline characteristics
A1C (%)	9.4 ± 1.5	11.1 ± 2.1^†
BMI (kg/m²)	29 ± 8	28 ± 7
Problem Areas in Diabetes Survey	48.4 ± 38.6	83.8 ± 27.6^†
Hypoglycemia Fear Survey	41.4 ± 24.3	41.9 ± 24.2
Self-Care Inventory	65.3 ± 17.7	46 ± 20.1^†
Brief Symptom Inventory (depression)	58.5 ± 10.6	58.6 ± 14.5
Brief Symptom Inventory (anxiety)	55.8 ± 11.5	60.5 ± 11.8
Brief Symptom Inventory–Global Severity Index	56.7 ± 13.4	62.1 ± 10.1
Bulimia Test-Revised	55 ± 24	85 ± 30^*
Eating Disorders Inventory (drive for thinness)	3.6 ± 3	5.9 ± 3
Eating Disorders Inventory (bulimia)	1.5 ± 2	4.1 ± 4^‡
Eating Disorders Inventory (body dissatisfaction)	9.3 ± 6	11.6 ± 5
Eating Disorders Inventory (total score)	29.6 ± 19.5	47.6 ± 24^‡

	Appropriate insulin users	Insulin restrictors
n	16	10
Age at death	57.7 ± 11	44.7 ± 11^*
Diabetes duration at death	33.2 ± 12	26.5 ± 11
Baseline characteristics
A1C (%)	9.4 ± 1.5	11.1 ± 2.1^†
BMI (kg/m²)	29 ± 8	28 ± 7
Problem Areas in Diabetes Survey	48.4 ± 38.6	83.8 ± 27.6^†
Hypoglycemia Fear Survey	41.4 ± 24.3	41.9 ± 24.2
Self-Care Inventory	65.3 ± 17.7	46 ± 20.1^†
Brief Symptom Inventory (depression)	58.5 ± 10.6	58.6 ± 14.5
Brief Symptom Inventory (anxiety)	55.8 ± 11.5	60.5 ± 11.8
Brief Symptom Inventory–Global Severity Index	56.7 ± 13.4	62.1 ± 10.1
Bulimia Test-Revised	55 ± 24	85 ± 30^*
Eating Disorders Inventory (drive for thinness)	3.6 ± 3	5.9 ± 3
Eating Disorders Inventory (bulimia)	1.5 ± 2	4.1 ± 4^‡
Eating Disorders Inventory (body dissatisfaction)	9.3 ± 6	11.6 ± 5
Eating Disorders Inventory (total score)	29.6 ± 19.5	47.6 ± 24^‡

Data are means ± SD.

*

P < 0.01;

†

P < 0.05;

‡

trend P = 0.07 (P values associated with Wilcoxon exact tests).