Table 1. Comparison of Baseline Characteristics Among Overall Population, by Race/Ethnicity*.
| Variable | Whites | Blacks | Asians | Hispanic s |
Native- American s |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | 73807 | 8896 | 1960 | 6050 | 559 | |
| Female | 55.1 | 60.7 | 48.7 | 51.5 | 52.2 | |
| Disabled† | < 35 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| 35-50 | 3.0 | 8.6 | 1.8 | 4.5 | 5.7 | |
| 51-64 | 9.6 | 22.7 | 7.8 | 15.3 | 17.7 | |
| Aged† | 65-74 | 31.3 | 30.3 | 30.7 | 33.8 | 38.5 |
| 75-84 | 33.4 | 24.5 | 38.1 | 32.2 | 27.5 | |
| > 85 | 22.5 | 13.3 | 21.5 | 14.0 | 10.0 | |
| Heart failure | 62.9 | 73.2 | 68.1 | 72.0 | 67.6 | |
| Diabetes | 46.2 | 65.4 | 65.7 | 71.3 | 64.2 | |
| Rheumatoid/Osteoarthritis | 28.3 | 29.4 | 26.3 | 31.0 | 24.7 | |
| Depression | 24.4 | 19.6 | 12.9 | 26.3 | 22.9 | |
| Alzheimer | 7.4 | 8.6 | 6.7 | 9.7 | 4.3 | |
| Dementia | 18.4 | 22.3 | 18.8 | 21.0 | 14.7 | |
| Died in a year after discharge | 9.5 | 11.3 | 9.0 | 9.4 | 8.9 | |
| Prescription Drug Risk Score | 0.7±0.00 | 0.83±0.00 | 0.7±0.00 | 0.77±0.00 | 0.79±0.01 | |
| No. of Elixhauser comobidities | 3.31±0.01 | 4.53±0.03 | 3.7±0.06 | 4.37±0.04 | 3.89±0.13 |
*
Plus-minus values are means±SE. We conducted chi-square test to compare categorical variables and analysis of variance to compare continuous variables across different racial groups.
All P-values are <0.001.
†
These numbers are years of age.