Table 1.
Characteristics | |
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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.