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. 2012 Jun 29;27(11):1499–1505. doi: 10.1007/s11606-012-2131-4

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics Among Hispanic Groups in the ACCORD Trial

Baseline Characteristics Mexican (N = 243) Puerto Rican (N = 199) Dominican (N = 150) p-value*
Age , years (mean, SD) 60.5 (7.7) 62.8 (7.3) 60.3 (7.6) 0.002
Gender, female N (%) 119 (49) 81 (41) 87 (58) 0.006
Education, less than high school, N (%) 95 (39) 81 (41) 86 (57) 0.001
high school graduate, N (%) 46 (19) 61 (31) 47 (31)
some college or higher, N (%) 102 (42) 57 (29) 17 (11)
Born in the United States, N (%) 115 (48) 18 (10) 2 (1) 0.001
Smoking, never N (%) 144 (59) 86 (43) 87 (58) 0.001
former/current N (%) 99 (41) 112 (57) 63 (42)
Health insurance, private, N (%) 85 (35) 71 (36) 22 (15) 0.001
public, N (%) 58 (24) 110 (55) 90 (60)
none, N (%) 96 (40) 18 (9) 37 (25)
Weekly caloric expenditure (mean, SD) † 2865 (2643) 2452 (2747) 1378 (1250) 0.034
Body mass index kg/m2, (mean, SD) 31.8 (5.1) 31.5 (5.6) 29.9 (4.8) 0.001
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg (mean, SD) 138 (17) 137 (18) 139 (18) 0.388
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg (mean, SD) 76 (11) 74 (12) 78 (10) 0.004
High density lipoprotein, mg/dl (mean, SD) 41 (9) 43 (11) 43 (14) 0.018
Low density lipoprotein, mg/dl (mean, SD) 104 (34) 108 (37) 104 (33) 0.449
Self reported peripheral neuropathy, N (%) 34 (14) 40 (21) 26 (17) 0.239
Insulin therapy, N (%) 72 (30) 77 (39) 56 (37) 0.099
Number of oral hypoglycemic medicines, N(%)
0 35 (14) 37 (19) 24 (16) 0.805
1 94 (39) 73 (37) 54 (36)
2+ 114 (47) 89 (45) 72 (48)
Glycated hemoglobin %, (mean, SD) 8.6 (1.3) 8.4 (1.0) 8.6 (1.3) 0.056
Duration of diabetes, years (mean, SD) 11.3 (8.3) 12.5 (8.9) 10.6 (7.1) 0.102

*P-value from overall test of association between baseline characteristics and Hispanic group (χ2test for categorical variables, analysis of variance for continuous variables)

†Caloric expenditure data was collected on a randomly selected subset of ACCORD participants, among 96 Hispanic participants