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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Genet Metab. 2017 Apr 19;121(2):119–126. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2017.04.007

Table 2A.

Patient and hospital characteristics, adult hospitalizations, summary.

Hospitalizations in 2012, HCUP-NIS
Adults (18 years and older), with Mitochondrial Disease Adult (18–53 years ), without Mitochondrial Disease
Number of hospitalizations, In total Total Total
1,935 8,459,353
Age (years) Median (IQI) Median (IQI)
35.6 (23.0, 52.5) 41.5 (31.3, 48.1)
Sex % female (n) % female (n)
62.5 (1,210) 51.4 (4,345,732)
Population ancestry % white, non-Hispanic (n) % white, non-Hispanic (n)
80.6 (1,450) 61.1 (4,899,721)
Number of chronic conditions Median (IQI) Median (IQI)
5.87 (3.90, 7.77) 2.99 (1.32, 5.07)
Median household income for participant zip code (quartile, higher = higher income) Median (IQI) Median (IQI)
2.16 (1.07, 3.26) 1.66 (1.00, 2.73)
Expected primary payer Percentage in category (n) Percentage in category (n)
 Medicaid 19.4 (375) 23.9 (2,017,352)
 Private, Including HMO 40.1 (775) 39.5 (3,328,675)
 Self-pay 3.4 (65) 13.8 (1,164,906)
 Medicare 33.9 (655) 15.4 (1,300,065)
 No charge/other 3.4 (65) 7.4 (622,420)
Hospital characteristics Total (%) Total (%)
 Geographic region
  Northeast 600 (31) 1,699,748 (20)
  Midwest 490 (25) 1,888,638 (22)
  South 520 (27) 3,293,309 (39)
  West 325 (17) 1,578,313 (19)
 Teaching Status Total (%) Total (%)
  Teaching hospital 1,310 (68) 4,565,669 (54)
  Not a teaching hospital 625 (32) 3,894,339 (46)

IQI = inter-quartile interval. Values in bold text are statistically significantly different between individuals with and without mitochondrial disease.