Table 3

Combined prevalence of type 2 diabetes and intermediate hyperglycaemia by trial arms and gender, age group and wealth tertile at the end of the study

CharacteristicsEnd-of-study diabetes and hyperglycaemia cases
Control
n (%)
mHealth
n (%)
PLA
n (%)
mHealth
aOR (95% CI)*
PLA
aOR (95% CI)*
GenderMale799 (44.5)720 (41.6)455 (26.7)0.90 (0.71 to 1.13)
p=0.347
0.42 (0.32 to 0.55)
p<0.001*
Female1164 (57.5)1202 (58.2)703 (34.3)1.02 (0.77 to 1.35)
p=0.887
0.33 (0.23 to 0.46)
p<0.001*
Age groups (years)30–39590 (46.7)516 (44.8)329 (27.3)0.91 (0.70 to 1.19)
p=0.504
0.33 (0.23 to 0.47)
p<0.001*
40–49509 (46.5)512 (50.7)310 (21.0)1.06 (0.82 to 1.38)
p=0.631
0.43 (0.31 to 0.59)
p<0.001*
50–59385 (54.8)445 (55.4)237 (32.1)1.03 (0.79 to 1.36)
p=0.814
0.37 (0.28 to 0.51)
p<0.001*
≥60479 (57.9)449 (53.8)282 (34.8)0.87 (0.69 to 1.10)
p=0.245
0.38 (0.28 to 0.51)
p<0.001*
Wealth tertilesMost poor623 (55.0)661 (54.9)507 (34.2)0.98 (0.74 to 1.29)
p=0.870
0.40 (0.29 to 0.56)
p<0.001*
Poor610 (48.9)636 (48.5)300 (25.3)0.95 (0.74 to 1.21)
p=0.669
0.32 (0.24 to 0.44)
p<0.001*
Least poor722 (51.7)616 (48.6)348 (32.3)0.89 (0.68 to 1.16)
p=0.389
0.37 (0.27 to 0.51)
p<0.001*
  • *Significant at p=0.003 after Bonferroni correction.

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