Table 2.
Patterns of male diabetes prevalence and diabetes risk factors by education group and NHANES survey year
| Prevalence and risk factors | Education level |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Middle | High | All | Ed 13–15 | Ed 16+ | |
| NHANES II: Ages 25–70 | ||||||
| Prevalence | ||||||
| Diagnosed prevalence, % | 3.9 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 1.9 |
| Total prevalence, % | 8.1 | 6.6 | 3.1 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 3.9 |
| Undiagnosed, % | 48.2 | 43.7 | 49.6 | 47.9 | 51.2 | 49.1 |
| Risk factors | ||||||
| Hispanic, % | 9.9 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 4.7 | 2.3 | 2.6 |
| Black, % | 14.6 | 7.3 | 5.7 | 9.3 | 8.3 | 3.8 |
| Now smoker, % | 49.1 | 44.8 | 35.2 | 42.8 | 42.8 | 29.7 |
| Vig-exercise, % | 20.9 | 23.4 | 23.9 | 22.8 | 22.6 | 24.9 |
| Obese, % | 15.4 | 15.5 | 9.1 | 13.1 | 13.1 | 7.1 |
| Parent diabetic, % | 17.8 | 16.8 | 15.2 | 16.5 | 15.7 | 15.1 |
| Age, years | 49.7 | 42.8 | 41.9 | 44.4 | 41.1 | 40.3 |
| NHANES III: Ages 25–70 | ||||||
| Prevalence | ||||||
| Diagnosed prevalence, % | 7.2 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 2.6 |
| Total prevalence, % | 12.1 | 6.4 | 4.3 | 6.8 | 5.8 | 3.3 |
| Undiagnosed, % | 40.5 | 30.7 | 22.9 | 32.5 | 24.6 | 20.7 |
| Risk factors | ||||||
| Hispanic, % | 23.0 | 6.4 | 4.4 | 9.5 | 6.8 | 3.3 |
| Black, % | 13.6 | 11.6 | 6.6 | 9.9 | 9.6 | 4.3 |
| Now smoker, % | 44.9 | 42.8 | 21.0 | 33.7 | 27.6 | 15.9 |
| Vigorous-ex, % | 20.5 | 29.3 | 50.8 | 37.0 | 43.3 | 56.4 |
| Obese, % | 24.7 | 22.2 | 18.6 | 21.1 | 21.7 | 16.1 |
| Parent diabetic, % | 21.9 | 20.4 | 18.6 | 19.9 | 19.7 | 17.7 |
| Age, years | 46.3 | 42.2 | 42.1 | 43.1 | 40.7 | 43.1 |
| NHANES IV: Ages 25–70 | ||||||
| Prevalence | ||||||
| Diagnosed prevalence, % | 9.8 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | ||
| Total prevalence, % | 14.2 | 8.7 | 7.2 | 8.9 | ||
| Undiagnosed, % | 31.1 | 19.3 | 16.4 | 21.8 | ||
| Risk factors | ||||||
| Hispanic, % | 32.4 | 10.7 | 7.2 | 13.9 | ||
| Black, % | 17.6 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 9.6 | ||
| Now smoker, % | 43.2 | 36.6 | 18.9 | 28.2 | ||
| Vig-exercise, % | 23.5 | 33.5 | 51.4 | 41.4 | ||
| Obese, % | 28.3 | 31.1 | 26.9 | 28.2 | ||
| Parent diabetic, % | 26.1 | 25.4 | 23.4 | 24.4 | ||
| Age, years | 45.3 | 43.6 | 44.9 | 44.6 | ||
Now smoker, currently a smoker; Vig-exercise, vigorous exercise as defined in the text; Obese, BMI ≥ 30; parent a diabetic, one of the respondent's parents was diabetic. All other variables are defined in Table 1. All data are weighted.