Research Article

Awareness of Vaccination against Respiratory Tract Diseases, Including Pneumonia, Influenza, and COVID-19 in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

Table 1

Summary of the demographic and biochemical data of the patients.

Patients (N = 424)

Sex: F/M256/168
Age (mean, years)53.6 ± 12.86
Duration of diabetes mellitus (mean, years)10.9 ± 8.6
Serum level of HbA1c (mean, mg/dl)8.16 ± 1.96

Educational status, N (%)Illiterate, 29 (6.8%)
Elementary school, 192 (45.3%)
Middle school, 64 (15.1%)
High school, 79 (18.6%)
University, 60 (14.2%)

Type of diabetes, N (%)Type 139 (9.2%)
Type 2385 (90.8%)

Type of the treatment, N (%)Diet26 (6.1%)
OAD191 (45%)
Insulin94 (22.2%)
OAD + insulin113 (26.7%)