Relationship between sarcopenia and fatty liver in middle-aged and elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Table 1 Comparative analysis of the demographic data of patients having T2DM with and without sarcopenia

Item	T2DM without sarcopenia (n = 221)	T2DM with sarcopenia (n = 61)	P
Age (years)	63.23 ± 6.226	64.98 ± 7.683	0.092
Gender			< 0.001
Male	130(58.3%)	36(59.0%)
Female	91(41.6%)	25(41.0%)
Disease duration (years)	11.03 ± 7.78	13.6 ± 8.91	0.429
BMI	27.35 ± 3.889	24.019 ± 3.771	< 0.001
Hypertension	151(68.3%)	21(34.4%)	0.742
Smoking	49(22.2%)	17(27.8%)	0.527
Alcohol Consumption	40(18.1%)	11(18.0%)	0.817
Fatty liver	147(66.5%)	25(40.9%)	0.029

T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus; BMI: body mass index
Measurement data that fit the normal distribution were represented by mean ± standard deviation, while count data were represented by frequency and percentage

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