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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2019 May 24;24(2):159–165. doi: 10.3171/2019.4.PEDS18594

TABLE 2.

Demographic information stratified by patient race

Variable No. of Patients (%) or Median (IQR) p Value
Overall Cohort (n = 198) African American (n = 33) Caucasian (n = 165)
Biological sex
 Male 117 (59) 18 (55) 99 (60) 0.561
 Female 81 (41) 15 (45) 66 (40)
Ethnicity
 Hispanic 10 (6) 1 (3) 9 (6) 0.488
 Non-Hispanic 171 (94) 32 (97) 139 (94)
Insurance
 Private 101 (51) 10 (30) 91 (55)
 Public 71 (36) 19 (58) 52 (32) 0.025
 Self-pay 14 (7) 3 (9) 11 (7)
 Other (military) 12 (6) 1 (3) 11 (7)
Insurance
 Private vs other 101 (51) vs 97 (49) 10 (30) vs 23 (70) 91 (55) vs 74 (45) 0.009
 Public vs other 71 (36) vs 127 (64) 19 (58) vs 14 (42) 52 (32) vs 113 (68) 0.004
Median household income (USD) 47,506 (45,654, 58,273) 50,287 (47,506, 56,945) 47,506 (45,643, 58,550) 0.031
Mean distance (miles) 40.5 (22.8, 73.8) 28.5 (11.4, 61.0) 41.0 (24.3, 74.1) 0.037
Tumor grade category
 High 68 (37) 11 (37) 57 (37) 0.991
 Low 117 (63) 19 (63) 98 (63)
Tumor grade
 I 73 (37) 11 (34) 62 (38)
 II 19 (10) 2 (6) 17 (10)
 III 18 (9) 4 (12)) 14 (9) 0.930
 IV 36 (18) 7 (22) 29 (18)
 Unknown 52 (26) 9 (27) 43 (26)

Boldface type indicates statistical significance.