Table 1.

Descriptive Characteristics of Participants in a Health-fair Screen for Inflammatory Arthritis (IA) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

IA/RA screening participants (N=601)	Total health-fair participants (N=~91,000)	P-values
Sex
Female 74%	Female 59%	P=0.02
Age
Mean 59 years-old	Mean 53 years-old	P=0.45
Race
White 88.5%	White 94.6%	P=0.50
Hispanic 5.7%	Hispanic 3.8%	P=0.50
Black 2.1%	Black 0.3%	P<0.01*
Asian 1.5%	Asian 0.8%	P=0.10
Other 2.1%	Other 0.5%	P<0.01*
Reason screened (data on 480 IA/RA Screen subjects)	N/A	N/A
Check-up, no symptoms 28%
Relative with RA, no symptoms 21%
Symptoms (pain, stiffness, swelling; +/− relative with RA) 51%

^*Other race includes mixed races as well as those not included in the categories of White, Hispanic, Black, and Asian. The significant increases in Black and Other races participating in this health-fair likely reflect the demographics of Denver compared with that of the other sites of the health-fair in more rural regions of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming.

Abbreviations: IA=inflammatory arthritis; RA=rheumatoid arthritis; N/A=not applicable