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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2014 Jun 20;217(8):854–860. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2014.06.005

Table 1.

Characteristics of NHANES 2005–2010 participants included in the analysis.

Overall
Males
Females
N Weighted mean
or frequency
N Weighted mean
or frequency
N Weighted mean
or frequency
Age (years) 2398 55.9 1194 55.3 1204 56.4
Race/ethnicity (%)
Non-Hispanic White 1339 78.4 673 37.0 666 41.5
Non-Hispanic Black 434 8.9 225 4.0 209 4.9
Mexican American 347 4.9 167 2.5 180 2.4
Other 278 7.7 129 3.5 149 4.2
Education (%)
Less than 9th grade 302 6.4 143 3.0 159 3.4
9–11th grade 353 10.6 184 5.2 169 5.4
High School Grad/GED 558 24.8 294 12.5 264 12.3
Some College or AA degree 647 28.9 307 12.9 340 16.0
College Grad or Above 538 29.3 266 13.3 272 16.0
BMI (kg/m2) 2398 28.3 1194 28.2 1204 28.4
Smoking Status (%)
Never 1185 49.5 457 19.1 728 30.4
Former 735 20.0 467 23.6 268 15.5
Pack-years
0.1–20 449 63.0 269 32.4 180 30.7
20+ 271 34.7 192 22.5 790 12.2
Current 478 29.1 270 32.6 208 24.9
Pack-years
0.1–20 224 40.5 113 19.0 111 21.5
20+ 254 59.5 157 35.4 97 24.0
Hypertension (%) 1028 38.5 507 17.2 521 21.3
Diabetes status (%)
No diabetes 1191 55.8 552 25.3 639 30.5
Prediabetes 1207 44.2 642 21.6 565 22.6
Fasting glucose (mmol/L) 1101 99.7 546 102.0 555 97.7
2 h OGTT (mmol/L) 967 112.9 485 111.5 482 114.1
% Hemoglobin A1c 2396 5.5 1194 5.4 1202 5.5
Urine Cd (μg/g creatinine) 2398 0.4 1194 0.4 1204 0.5