Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Age (years) | 49.7 ± 14.9 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 29.2 ± 6.83 |
| Sex | |
| Male | 343 (55.5) |
| Female | 275 (44.5) |
| Ethnicity | |
| African American | 154 (24.9) |
| White | 295 (47.7) |
| Hispanic | 55 (8.9) |
| Asian/Indian | 57 (9.2) |
| Other* | 57 (9.2) |
| Insurance | |
| Medicare | 75 (12.1) |
| Medicaid | 25 (4.0) |
| Third party | 429 (69.4) |
| Self-pay | 81 (13.1) |
| Other | 8 (1.3) |
| Hospitalized | |
| Yes | 310 (50.2) |
| No | 308 (49.8) |
| Time to follow-up (days) | 55 ± 56.2 |
| Relative with diabetes† | |
| Yes | 101 (16.3) |
| Past medical history | |
| High cholesterol | |
| Yes | 238 (38.5) |
| No | 370 (59.9) |
| Unknown | 9 (1.5) |
| Hypertension | |
| Yes | 236 (38.2) |
| No | 376 (60.8) |
| Unknown | 4 (0.6) |
| Coronary artery disease‡ | |
| Yes | 109 (17.6) |
| No | 509 (82.4) |
| Other cardiac§ | |
| Yes | 55 (8.9) |
| No | 563 (91.1) |
| Stroke/transient ischemic attack | |
| Yes | 22 (3.6) |
| No | 596 (96.4) |
Data are means ± SD or n (%). N = 618.
*Other = Caribbean, Guyanese, other South American.
†Yes = parents or siblings.
‡History of coronary artery disease, coronary artery bypass graft, abnormal cardiac catherization, placement of cardiac stents, history of angina, and/or abnormal stress test.
§Other cardiac = congestive heart failure, dysrhythmia, cardiomyopathy, pacemaker, and automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator.