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. 2017 Jul 26;5(3):e21. doi: 10.2196/medinform.7954

Table 3.

Clinical patterns of patients by risk categories in the validation cohort.

Characteristic Low risk
N=1,266,983
Intermediate risk
N=111,195
High risk
N=52,594
Age, years, median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile) 39 (20, 56) 75 (68, 82) 79 (71, 85)
Female, n (%) 667,440 (52.68) 55,717 (50.11) 25,710 (48.88)
Race, n (%)



White 1,031,954 (81.45) 110,303 (99.20) 52,221 (99.29)

Black 21,151 (1.67) 424 (0.38) 195 (0.37)

Asian 10,332 (0.82) 253 (0.23) 92 (0.17)

Other/unknown 203,546 (16.07) 215 (0.19) 86 (0.16)
Diabetes, n (%) 22,025 (1.74) 19,271 (17.33) 19,335 (36.76)
Hypertension, n (%) 60,970 (4.81) 39,564 (35.58) 32,794 (62.35)
Heart disease, n (%) 17,388 (1.37) 16,156 (14.53) 19,236 (36.57)
Obesity, n (%) 29,308 (2.31) 6686 (6.01) 4771 (9.07)
Blood pressure medication, n (%) 64,974 (5.13) 42,096 (37.86) 34,183 (64.99)
Diabetes medication, n (%) 26,533 (2.09) 17,045 (15.33) 15,553 (29.57)
Abnormal diabetes test, n (%) 575 (0.05) 388 (0.35) 618 (1.18)
Abnormal urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio, n (%) 155 (0.01) 90 (0.08) 171 (0.33)
Total costs, median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile) 170 (0, 925) 850 (170, 2455) 1700 (510, 4530)
Outpatient visits, median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile) 1 (0, 3) 4 (1, 8) 8 (4, 15)
Total counts of medications, median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile) 0 (0, 3) 7 (0, 31) 32 (7, 75)
Total counts of laboratory tests, median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 29) 6 (0, 81)