Table 2. Comparative descriptive statistics for diabetes diagnosis, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Hispanic participants, 2005.
| No self-report of diabetes diagnosis | Self-reported diabetes diagnosis | ||
| Covariate | Mean (SD) or n (%) | Mean (SD) or n (%) | Pb |
| Diabetes | |||
| Diabetes diagnosis | 6781 (9.87%) | 681 (9.13%) | |
| Individual SES | |||
| Educational level | <.001 | ||
| Less than high schoola | 1803 (88.64%) | 231 (11.36%) | |
| High school graduate | 2049 (9.62%) | 212 (9.38%) | |
| Some college | 1608 (91.57%) | 148 (8.43%) | |
| Graduated college | 1321 (93.62%) | 90 (6.38%) | |
| Household income | <.001 | ||
| <$15,000a | 1189 (85.05%) | 209 (14.95%) | |
| $15,000 to $25,000 | 2073 (91.20%) | 200 (8.80%) | |
| $25,000 to $35,000 | 1063 (92.76%) | 83 (7.24%) | |
| $35,000 to $50,000 | 908 (92.37%) | 75 (7.63%) | |
| >$50,000 | 1548 (93.14%) | 114 (6.86%) | |
| Employed | <.001 | ||
| Yes | 4750 (93.95%) | 306 (6.05%) | |
| No | 2031 (84.41%) | 375 (15.59%) | |
| Individual Controls | |||
| Body mass index | 27.45 (5.61) | 31.55 (7.47) | <.001 |
| Body mass index categories | <.001 | ||
| Underweight | 99 (94.29%) | 5 (5.71%) | |
| Normal weighta | 2268 (96.26%) | 88 (3.74%) | |
| Overweight | 2659 (92.36%) | 220 (7.64%) | |
| Obese | 1755 (82.70%) | 367 (17.30%) | |
| Smoker Status | <.001 | ||
| Current smokera | 1216 (91.84%) | 108 (8.16%) | |
| Former smoker | 1271 (85.53%) | 215 (14.47%) | |
| Never smoked | 4294 (92.30%) | 358 (7.70%) | |
| Physical activity (minutes of moderate activity) | 53.76 (73.07) | 49.08 (77.72) | .132 |
| Insured | <.001 | ||
| Yes | 4619 (89.58%) | 537 (1.42%) | |
| No | 2162 (93.76%) | 144 (6.24%) | |
| Age | 4.53 (14.52) | 54.83 (13.62) | <.001 |
| Sex | .619 | ||
| Male | 2682 (9.67%) | 276 (9.33%) | |
| Female | 4099 (91.01%) | 405 (8.99%) | |
| Marital status | .081 | ||
| Never married, separated | 2596 (9.14%) | 284 (9.86%) | |
| Cohabiting, marrieda | 4185 (91.34%) | 397 (8.66%) | |
| Fruit and vegetable consumption | .877 | ||
| Less than 5 times per daya | 5285 (9.90%) | 529 (9.10%) | |
| 5 or more times per day | 2596 (9.14%) | 284 (9.86%) | |
| General Health | <.001 | ||
| Excellent | 1258 (97.67%) | 30 (2.33%) | |
| Very good | 1707 (95.79%) | 75 (4.21%) | |
| Good | 2377 (92.71%) | 187 (7.29%) | |
| Fair | 1164 (83.14%) | 236 (16.86%) | |
| Poora | 275 (64.25%) | 153 (35.75%) |
a. Indicates a category used as the base category for logistic regression.
b. Ps are from Chi-square test of association for categorical variables and from t-test for continuous variables.