Table 1. Characteristics of patients with acute stroke by race/ethnicity.

Variable	South Asians N = 273	Whites N = 2156	African Americans N = 605	Hispanics N = 256	Total N = 3290	Pa
Demographics
Mean age, years (SD)	65.1 (14.5)	73.0 (14.4)	64.7 (14.5)	63.8 (16.1)	70.0 (15.1)	<0.0001b
% Female	40.7	55.0	59.7	46.9	54.0	<0.0001
Insurance Status, %						0.9441c
Medicare	10.6	23.1	18.0	21.5	21.0
Medicaid	2.6	0.7	2.1	1.6	1.2
Medicare and Medicaid	16.5	3.5	8.4	8.6	5.9
Commercial/VA	25.3	16.6	20.7	16.4	18.0
Self-Pay/None	22.3	2.8	12.2	16.0	7.2
HMO	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.1
Undetermined	0.8	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1
Any Combination Above	21.9	53.1	38.4	35.9	46.5
Socioeconomic Status
% Unemployed	5.9	40.6	28.2	25.3	4.1	<0.0001
Median Household Income (IQR)	$78,389 (17,446)	$62,964 (11,689)	$50,707 (15,374)	$47,708 (23,174)	$61,091 (18,805)	0.1465d
Median Household Size	3.0	3.3	1.8	1.8	2.7
% Education Level						<0.0001
<High School	17.2	16.8	32.0	50.3	23.6
High School Graduate	14.1	36.2	38.1	30.3	34.1
College Graduate	68.7	47.0	29.9	19.4	42.3
% Below Poverty Line	6.3	33.0	28.0	32.7	19.5	<0.0001

HMO = Health Maintenance Organization.

VA = Veterans Affairs.

NS = not significant.

SD = standard deviation.

IQR = interquartile range.

^aχ² test.

^bANOVA comparing mean age by race/ethnicity.

^cFisher's exact test.

^dKruskal-Wallis test.