Analysis of Clinical Characteristics of 556 Spinal Tuberculosis Patients in Two Tertiary Teaching Hospitals in Guangxi Province

Table 6

Correlation analysis between STB and diabetes.

Variate	Type	With diabetes		Without diabetes		Total
			%		%
Age (years)	>45	61	82.43	95	19.71	156	125.032	<0.001
	<45	13	17.57	387	80.29	400
Systemic toxicity symptoms	Yes	32	43.24	210	43.56	242	0.003	0.958
	No	42	56.76	272	56.44	314
Abscess	Yes	53	71.62	296	61.41	349	2.862	0.091
	No	21	28.38	186	38.59	207
Neurological injury	Yes	39	52.70	261	54.15	300	0.054	0.816
	No	35	47.3	221	45.85	256
Surgery	Yes	36	48.64	468	97.1	504	177.603	<0.001
	No	38	51.36	14	2.90	52
Prognosis	Cure	58	78.37	428	88.79	486	6.327	0.012
	Other	16	21.63	54	11.21	70