Table 1.
Characteristics of NF hospitalizations.
| Group | n = 12,172 |
|---|---|
| Age [years, n (%)] | |
| 15–64 | 9,226 (75.8) |
| 65–74 | 1,668 (13.7) |
| ≥75 | 1,278 (10.5) |
| Gender [n (%)]a | |
| Female | 5,036 (46) |
| Male | 5,922 (54) |
| Race/ethnicity [n (%)] | |
| Hispanic | 4,138 (34) |
| Black | 1,826 (15) |
| White | 5,356 (44) |
| Other | 852 (7) |
| Health insurance [n (%)] | |
| Private | 3,980 (33) |
| Medicare | 4,008 (33) |
| Medicaid | 1,408 (12) |
| Uninsured | 2,354 (19) |
| Other | 417 (4) |
| Missing | 5 (<1) |
| Chronic comorbidities [n (%)]b | |
| Any | 8,793 (72.2) |
| Congestive heart failure | 1,557 (12.8) |
| Peripheral vascular disease | 1,239 (10.2) |
| Chronic pulmonary disease | 1,368 (11.2) |
| Diabetes mellitus | 5,794 (47.6) |
| Dementia | 90 (0.7) |
| Myocardial infarction | 439 (3.6) |
| Connective tissue disease | 287 (2.4) |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 474 (3.9) |
| Chronic renal failure | 1,882 (15.5) |
| Malignancy | 578 (4.7) |
| Chronic liver disease | 786 (6.5) |
| HIVc infection | 74 (0.6) |
| Deyo-Charlson score | |
| mean (SD) | 1.8 (1.9) |
| Obesity [n (%)] | 1,855 (15.2) |
| Drug abuse [n (%)] | 586 (4.8) |
| Alcohol abuse [n (%)] | 628 (5.2) |
aGender was masked in 1214 hospitalizations. The denominator used to derive female/male percentage for the cohort was based on hospitalizations with available gender designation (n = 10,958); bbased on the Deyo-Charlson comorbidity index; chuman immunodeficiency virus.