Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the 159 diabetic patients and 95 control subjects.
Figure 1.
The experimental procedures and data analysis used in this study.
(A): the procedures; and (B): data analysis of the PHUA test.
Figure 2.
Mean (±SD) of M2PD, S2PD, SWM and static maximum pinch strength for the 159 diabetic patients and 95 control subjects.
(Statistical analysis method: independent t-test; the level of significance was set at p<0.05.)
Figure 3.
Mean (±SD) of outcome parameters derived from the PHUA test between the 159 diabetic patients and 95 control subjects.
(Statistical analysis method: independent t-test; the level of significance was set at p<0.05.)
Figure 4.
The ROC curves of the 2PD, SWM and PHUA tests for the diabetic patients.
Table 2.
Area under the curve, sensitivity, specificity and cutoff points of the 2PD, SWM and PHUA tests for the diabetic patients.