Table 3.
Foremost patient preexisting conditions
| Total Montana Patients | Race | |||||
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| Urban (RUCC ≤3; n=80) | Rural (RUCC ≥4; n=97) | p Value | White (n=116) | American Indian/Alaskan Native (n=50) | p Value | |
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| ∆All Diabetes, n (%) | 26 (32.5%) | 51 (52.6%) | 0.0073 | 48 (41.4%) | 28 (56.0%) | 0.0828 |
| Hypertension, n (%) | 40 (50.0%) | 48 (49.5%) | 0.9456 | 64 (55.2%) | 22 (44.0%) | 0.1863 |
| Anemia, n (%) | 11 (13.8%) | 21 (21.7%) | 0.1741 | 18 (15.5%) | 12 (24.0%) | 0.1925 |
| Thyroid, n (%) | 12 (15.0%) | 19 (19.6%) | 0.4242 | 21 (18.1%) | 9 (18.0%) | 0.9873 |
| ‡All Kidney, n (%) | 15 (18.8%) | 22 (22.7%) | 0.5222 | 22 (19.0%) | 15 (30.0%) | 0.1171 |
| Obesity, n (%) | 13 (16.3%) | 23 (23.7%) | 0.2197 | 26 (22.4%) | 9 (18.0%) | 0.5224 |
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All Diabetes includes Diabetes, Type I, Type II, and Diabetes Mellitus.
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All Kidney includes chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, acute kidney failure, chronic kidney failure.
Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC; characterizing counties by population size). Bolded text p values <0.05 were considered significant.