Prevalence and determinants of delayed gastric emptying in hospitalised Type 2 diabetic patients

Table 1 Reasons for hospitalisation in type 2 diabetic (n = 147) and nondiabetic (n = 34) patients

	Diabetes mellitus	Control group
	n	n
Diabetes mellitus	80	-
Hypertension	21	12
Ischemic heart disease	16	4
Back pain	6	4
Valvular heart disease	4	-
Colonic polyp	3	-
Anemia	2	-
Peripheral aterosclerosis	2	1
Gout	2	-
Phlebitis	1	3
Chronic bronchitis	1	1
Nontoxic goiter	1	-
Arthrosis	1	1
Atrial fibrilation	-	3
Neurasthenia	-	3
Pacemaker implantation	-	2

Table 2 Association between demographic variables and gastric emptying in Type 2 patients

		T50 (min)			Lag phase (min)
	n	mean	1 SD	P	mean	1 SD	P
Gender				0.02a			0.99
Female	76	72.1	72.1		9.1	6.4
Male	71	56.9	68.1		10.1	9.3
CAN				0.32			0.66
No	41	64.1	84.4		10.2	8
Yes	103	65.6	65.3		9.6	8
Retinopathy				0.88			0.77
No	126	65.7	74.4		9.8	8.2
Yes	21	58.7	38.9		8.5	6.1

CAN: Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy.

^aP < 0.05 between male and female.