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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 31.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetes Care. 2006 Feb;29(2):212–217. doi: 10.2337/diacare.29.02.06.dc05-1037

Table 1. Glucose, insulin, and BMI overall and by subgroup.

Race/ethnicity* BMI percentile


Overall Hispanic African American Caucasian Native American <85th 85th to <95th ≥95th
n 862 379 247 44 876 341 501
BMI (kg/m2) 24.3 ± 5.9 24.8 ± 5.9 24.4 ± 6.3 22.3 ± 4.6 27.6 ± 6.9
P < 0.0001
BMI percentile
 <85th 51.0% 45.1% 52.0% 65.6% 37.2%
 85th to <95th 19.8% 20.6% 20.9% 21.0% 16.3%
 ≥95th 29.2% 34.3% 27.1% 13.4% 46.5%
Fasting glucose (mg/dl) 98.2 ± 8.5 99.1 ± 9.2 96.5 ± 7.9 97.8 ± 7.5 99.6 ± 5.7 97.3 ± 7.0 98.3 ± 7.9 99.9 ± 10.8
P = 0.0092 P = 0.0172
Fasting glucose ≥100 mg/dl 40.5% 44.5% 32.4% 38.8% 45.5% 36.5% 42.1% 47.0%
Fasting glucose ≥110 mg/dl 6.2% 6.5% 6.2% 5.3% 6.8% 4.4% 6.7% 8.9%
Fasting insulin (μU/ml) 30.1 ± 19.1 33.5 ± 21.6 27.0 ± 15.5 24.4 ± 12.4 28.6 ± 14.0 22.5 ± 11.5 28.9 ± 16.4 44.8 ± 22.9
P < 0.0001 p < 0.0001
Fasting insulin ≥30 μU/ml 36.2% 44.3% 29.3% 20.5% 36.4% 16.0% 36.2% 72.3%
2-h glucose (mg/dl) 97.9 ± 21.9 96.9 ± 24.8 100.8 ± 17.4 95.4 ± 19.6 108.1 ± 22.5 93.2 ± 18.9 98.5 ± 18.6 105.8 ± 26.4
P = 0.2126 P < 0.0001
2-h glucose ≥ 140 mg/dl 2.3% 3.2% 1.3% 0.9% 7.3% 0.9% 3.4% 4.1%
2-h insulin (μU/ml) 102.1 ± 105.7 121.3 ± 131.4 90.6 ± 67.3 68.6 ±41.2 98.1 ± 89.4 76.1 ±48.7 102.5 ± 138.9 148.6 ± 133.4
P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001

Data are means ± SD unless otherwise indicated.

*

n = 103 “other” race/ethnicity dropped from analysis.

P value based on testing both variables as continuous measures.

Insulin log transformed for testing.