Descriptive statistics
| Patient characteristics | Random plasma glucose | All patients | ||
| ≤6.1 mmol·L−1 | >6.1– ≤11.1 mmol·L−1 | >11.1 mmol·L−1 | ||
| Patients n | 1437 | 270 | 66 | 1773 |
| Age years median (IQR) | 27*** (21–38) | 42*** (30–50) | 47.5*** (42–51) | 30 (22–43) |
| Sex proportion | ||||
| Female | 0.43# | 0.41# | 0.44# | 0.43 |
| Male | 0.56# | 0.59# | 0.56# | 0.57 |
In nine instances, the glucose results were excluded due to probably erroneous entries (>27.8 mmol·L−1); for five entries, sex information was unavailable. The Wilcoxon signed-rank nonparametric test was used for the variables age and sex. IQR: interquartile range. #: nonsignificant; ***: p<0.001.