. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 29.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Perinatol. 2011 Mar 14;28(7):515–520. doi: 10.1055/s-0031-1272968

Table 1.

Patient Demographics for Each Race/Ethnicity

	Caucasian	African-American	Latina	Asian
n	10,568	3275	2988	7404
Age >35 (%)	20	8	12	16
Nulliparous (%)	56	45	46	52
Education level—some college (%)	71	27	27	59
Medicaid Insurance (%)	40	44	38	39
BMI ≤ 19.8 (%)	22	16	14	34
BMI 19.8–26.0 (%)	63	51	59	57
BMI 26.1–29.0 (%)	7	11	13	5
BMI >29.1 (%)	8	22	14	4

All demographics characteristics were significantly different between the racial/ethnic groups with p value <0.05 by chi-square analysis. BMI, body mass index.