Risk Factors for Sarcopenia in the Elderly with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Effect of Metformin

Table 3

The results of multivariate analysis of influencing factors of sarcopenia in subjects.

Variables	Reference	OR	95% CI	value
Gender
Women	Men	2.539	1.475~4.371	0.0008
Age
70-79	60-69	2.186	1.420~3.365	0.0004
80-		5.191	2.792~9.651	<0.0001
Education
Middle school	Primary and below	0.408	0.249~0.669	0.0004
College and above		0.360	0.182~0.711	0.0033
BMI
24-28	<24	0.145	0.090~0.233	<0.0001
≥28		0.075	0.031~0.181	<0.0001
Alcohol use
Current	Never	1.088	0.592~2.001	0.7850
Former		1.078	0.198~5.863	0.9311
TC
≥4.14	<4.14	1.657	0.949~2.892	0.0759
TG
≥1.7	<1.7	0.672	0.442~1.020	0.0620
Hypoglycemic drugs
Non-metformin	No medication	0.452	0.283~0.721	0.0009
Metformin only		0.510	0.288~0.904	0.0211
Combination of metformin and other drugs		0.398	0.225~0.702	0.0015

BMI: body mass index; TC: total cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; CI: confidence interval.