Table 1. Characteristics of Jurisdictions Served by Local Health Departments (LHDs) With Twitter Accounts, by Those Tweeting and Not Tweeting About Diabetes, United States^a .

Jurisdiction Characteristics	Tweeting About Diabetes (n = 126)			Not Tweeting About Diabetes (n = 91)			z (U)b	P Valuec
	No.	Median	IQR	No.	Median	IQR
Total population (thousands)	117	230.2	462.0	80	101.5	242.0	3.5	<.001
People with diabetes or risk factor (thousands)	92	18.9	32.2	57	7.3	11.9	3.7	<.001
Population with diabetes or risk factor, %	92	9.0	2.9	57	9.1	2.2	0.6	.54
LHD capacity
Total no. of FTE	112	115.0	303.4	77	64.8	158.2	3.2	.001
Total spending, $ (in millions)	107	9.9	30.0	72	5.1	17.8	3.2	.002
FTE per 1,000 constituents	112	0.5	0.5	77	0.5	0.4	0.03	.97
Spending per capita, $	107	42.8	47.9	72	42.8	39.6	0.5	.60

Abbreviation: IQR, interquartile range; FTE, full-time equivalent staff.

^a LHD characteristics adopted from the 2010 National Association of County and City Health Officials Profile study (23). County-level diabetes rates obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (27). Data are presented in numbers unless otherwise indicated.

^b Mann-Whitney U test for independent samples.

^c χ² test.