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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2014 Jun 19;57(9):1850–1858. doi: 10.1007/s00125-014-3301-1

Table 1.

Study cohort characteristics overall and by self-reported race/ethnicity

Characteristic All
N=1,387
Self-reported race/ethnicity

African-American
n=379
Hispanic
n=411
White
n=597
p value
Age, years
 34–44 281 (30.38) 71 (32.31) 99 (45.61) 111 (26.60) < 0.001
 45–54 421 (28.31) 136 (34.86) 147 (30.47) 138 (25.35)
 55–64 372 (18.25) 86 (15.78) 118 (16.73) 168 (19.50)
 65–74 209 (12.28) 65 (12.06) 34 (4.62) 110 (13.89)
 75–87 104 (10.79) 21 (4.99) 13 (2.57) 70 (14.67)
Sex (% male) 519 (44.95) 135 (39.98) 143 (45.86) 241 (46.69) 0.262
Income, US$
 <20,000 455 (22.53) 141 (33.44) 205 (39.51) 109 (14.92) < 0.001
 20,000–49,999 405 (25.65) 129 (34.80) 146 (36.61) 129 (19.92)
 ≥50,000 527 (51.83) 109 (31.77) 59 (23.89) 358 (65.16)
Education
 Less than high school 174 (6.48) 41 (8.43) 117 (22.24) 16 (2.57) < 0.001
 High school or equivalent 397 (23.12) 144 (38.53) 156 (37.46) 96 (14.29)
 Some college 290 291 (20.65) 106 (32.59) 76 (18.11) 109 (16.54)
 College or more 526 (49.75) 88 (20.45) 62 (22.18) 376 (66.59)
Occupation
 Professional, managerial, sales and office 794 (67.97) 213 (59.32) 119 (40.42) 463 (76.81) < 0.001
 Service 333 (17.03) 93 (22.86) 171 (32.06) 68 (11.78)
 Manual labour 187 (11.76) 63 (16.27) 71 (17.61) 52 (8.84)
 Never worked 74 (3.24) 10 (1.55) 50 (9.91) 14 (2.57)
Private insurance 807 (70.27) 199 (55.57) 157 (47.80) 451 (80.44) < 0.001
Public insurance 676 (40.67) 206 (51.37) 238 (49.29) 232 (34.81) < 0.001
BMI, kg/m2
 Normal (<25) 337 (26.30) 72 (16.24) 71 (18.00) 194 (31.85) < 0.001
 Overweight (25–29) 515 (39.23) 132 (34.47) 162 (44.20) 221 (40.09)
 Obese (≥30) 535 (34.46) 175 (49.29) 178 (37.80) 182 (28.06)
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg 128 (0.74) 133 (1.49) 127 (0.99) 127 (0.97) < 0.001
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg 80 (0.43) 84 (0.84) 80 (0.75) 78 (0.56) < 0.001
LDL-cholesterol, mmol/l 2.89 (0.31) 3.01 (0.06) 2.99 (0.06) 2.82.0 (0.04) < 0.001
Fasting glucose, mmol/l 5.63 (0.03) 5.72 (0.04) 5.67 (0.05) 5.59 (0.04) < 0.001
HbA1c, % 5.53 (0.01) 5.68 (0.03) 5.57 (0.02) 5.47 (0.02) < 0.001
HbA1c, mmol/mol 36.9 (0.14) 38.6 (0.32) 37.4 (0.23) 36.3 (0.17) < 0.001
African ancestry, % 28.3 (1.41) 78.2 (1.12) 30.0 (1.97) 8.63 (0.54) < 0.001
Native American ancestry, % 7.58 (0.45) 5.95 (0.48) 25.3 (2.15) 4.68 (0.33) < 0.001
European ancestry, % 64.2 (1.50) 15.9 (1.06) 44.8 (2.05) 86.7 (0.65) < 0.001

All categorical variables are n (%); all continuous variables are mean (SE) unless specified otherwise

Values may not all sum up to 1,387 owing to rounding