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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Diabetes. 2015 Nov 26;17(8):584–591. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12340

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics at Testing by Diabetes Type

Overall White Hispanic Black

T1D
N=215a
T2D
N=326a
T1D
N = 123
T2D
N=24
T1D
N=62
T2D
N=191
T1D
N=16
T2D
N=87
Age (years)
  Mean ± SD 14.5 ± 2.7 16.1 ± 2.5 14.5 ± 2.6 16.5 ± 2.3 14.4 ± 2.8 16.1 ± 2.5 15.4 ± 3.0 16.2 ± 2.5
Female 99 (46%) 206 (63%) 47 (38%) 15 (63%) 31 (50%) 116 (61%) 12 (75%) 61 (70%)
BMI (%)b
  Median (quartiles) 75% (52%, 92%) 99% (96%, 99%) 70% (30%, 85%) 99% (97%, 99%) 84% (61%, 96%) 98% (96%, 99%) 96% (77%, 99%) 99% (97%, 100%)
Diabetes Duration (years)
  Median (quartiles) 3.2 (2.7, 3.7) 2.5 (0.8, 4.7) 3.2 (2.7, 3.7) 3.1 (1.2, 4.6) 3.2 (2.7, 3.7) 2.4 (0.8, 4.6) 3.2 (2.7, 3.7) 2.4 (1.0, 5.4)
HbA1c (% [mmol/mol])
  Mean ± SD 8.5 ± 2.1
(69 ± 23)
8.1 ± 2.6
(65 ± 28)
8.3 ± 2.0
(67 ± 22)
7.0 ± 1.6
(53 ± 17)
8.5 ± 1.9
(69 ± 20)
8.3 ± 2.7
(67 ± 29)
8.6 ±2.6
(71 ± 28)
8.3 ± 2.7
(67 ± 30)
Health Insurance
  Private 115 (55%) 86 (26%) 89 (75%) 12 (50%) 13 (21%) 30 (16%) 7 (44%) 30 (34%)
Parent Education
  High School or less 77 (44%) 222 (73%) 22 (23%) 14 (58%) 45 (78%) 148 (83%) 9 (75%) 50 (63 %)
Family Income
  <$25,000 31 (22%) 99 (45%) 6 (8%) 6 (30%) 20 (39%) 68 (53%) 3 (30%) 21 (39%)
Site
  Los Angeles, CA 59 (27%) 83 (25%) 9 (7%) 1 (4%) 38 (61%) 75 (39%) 8 (50%) 3 (3%)
  Houston, TX 1 (<1%) 35 (11%) 0 1 (4%) 0 24 (13%) 1 (6%) 10 (11%)
  Stanford, CA 25 (12%) 26 (8%) 13 (11%) 0 9 (15%) 21 (11%) 0 1 (1%)
  Denver, CO 81 (38%) 69 (21%) 59 (48%) 6 (25%) 13 (21%) 46 (24%) 3 (19%) 14 (16%)
  Gainesville, FL 20 (9%) 16 (5%) 18 (15%) 6 (25%) 0 2 (1%) 1 (6%) 7 (8%)
  New Haven, CT 24 (11%) 58 (18%) 19 (15%) 7 (29%) 2 (3%) 20 (10%) 3 (19%) 26 (30%)
  Ann Arbor, MI 5 (2%) 1 (<1%) 5 (4%) 0 0 0 0 0
  Philadelphia, PA 0 38 (12%) 0 3 (13%) 0 3 (2%) 0 26 (30%)
Season
  Winter 38 (18%) 66 (20%) 16 (13%) 3 (13%) 15 (24%) 37 (19%) 3 (19%) 23 (26%)
  Spring 56 (26%) 73 (22%) 36 (29%) 4 (17%) 13 (21%) 41 (21%) 3 (19%) 21 (24%)
  Summer 55 (26%) 92 (28%) 33 (27%) 12 (50%) 13 (21%) 49 (26%) 8 (50%) 22 (25%)
  Fall 66 (31%) 95 (29%) 38 (31%) 5 (21%) 21 (34%) 64 (34%) 2 (13%) 21 (24%)
a

. Number of participants with missing or unknown data by type (T1D/T2D): race/ethnicity (4/2), health insurance (5/0), parent education (39/21), family income (71/107), BMI% (121/29) and HbA1c (73/41).

b

. BMI percentiles adjusted for age and gender based on 2000 CDC growth charts for age 2–20 years and NHANES 1999–2002 data for adults (21; 22).