Table 2.
Distribution of Respondent Characteristics by 5-Y Mortality
| Weighted Percentage* | |
| Total Sample (n = 3,507) | Alive N = 2,866 |
| Clinical group | |
| Relatively healthy | 90.8 |
| Self-management difficulty | 79.4 |
| Uncertain benefit | 52.5 |
| p Value | <.001 |
| Age (years) | |
| 51–64 | 89.3 |
| 65–75 | 85.3 |
| ≥76 | 65.0 |
| p Value | <.001 |
| Gender | |
| Male | 81.8 |
| Female | 83.5 |
| p Value | .4 |
| Race | |
| White | 82.0 |
| African American | 83.4 |
| Hispanic | 86.9 |
| p Value | .08 |
| Living arrangement | |
| Married | 86.7 |
| Unmarried living with other(s) | 78.3 |
| Unmarried living alone | 75.5 |
| p Value | <.001 |
| Education (years) | |
| <12 | 77.8 |
| 12 | 82.7 |
| >12 | 86.8 |
| p Value | <.001 |
| Net Worth (dollars) | |
| ≤40,000 | 77.7 |
| 40,001–155,000 | 84.3 |
| 155,001–420,000 | 84.4 |
| >420,000 | 88.9 |
| p Value | <.001 |
| Use of insulin | |
| Yes | 71.1 |
| No | 82.7 |
| p Value | <.001 |
| HbA1c (N = 1,136; mean ±SE) | 7.4 ± 0.07† |
| p Value | 0.6 |
Note: Proportions are related to the rows and not the columns; the rows for each variable (not the columns) add to 100%. p Value from the χ2 test for the association between the indicated variable and 5-y mortality.
*
Weighted percentages were derived using Health and Retirement Study respondent population weights to adjust for differential probability of selection into the sample and differential nonresponse.
†
For comparison, the HbA1c (mean ± SE) for 314 subsample respondents who died was 7.3 ± 0.1.