A Pilot Study to Assess the Feasibility of the Spanish Diabetes Self-Management Program in the Basque Country

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of participating patients.

Baseline information
Age in years; mean (SD)	63.4 (8.1)
Sex; n (%)
Male	89 (52)
Female	82 (48)
Years with diabetes; mean (SD)	9.7 (7.2)
Smoking status; n (%)
Smoker	30 (18)
Nonsmoker	141 (82)
Comorbidities; n (%)
Hypertension	97 (57)
Heart disease	44 (26)
Macroangiopathy	43 (25)
Microangiopathy	24 (14)

n (%) = frequency (percentage) and SD = standard deviation. Comorbidity data indicate frequency of the “yes” category.