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. 2018 Sep 12;13:2859–2868. doi: 10.2147/COPD.S167379

Table 2.

Participant demographics

Demographics ACO (N=299) Asthma (N=1,609) Asthma age-matched subgroup (N=299) COPD (N=479) P-valuesa (ACO vs asthma) P-valuesa (ACO vs age-matched asthma subgroup) P-valuesa (ACO vs COPD)
Age (years), weighted mean ± SD 60±0.7 37±0.6 60.0±0.8 61±0.4 <0.001 0.966 0.444
Sex, n (weighted %)
 Male 115 (39) 747 (44) 115 (32) 282 (56) 0.284 0.163 0.002
BMI (kg/m2), weighted mean ± SD 30.5±0.5 28.9±0.3 31.3±0.6 29.4±0.4 0.005 0.318 0.097
Race, n (weighted %)
 White 166 (78.9) 649 (66.1) 134 (74.1) 301 (82.3)
 African American 72 (10.3) 445 (14.7) 85 (13.6) 84 (6.5)
 Mexican American 15 (1.6) 179 (6.9) 19 (2.4) 31 (1.9) <0.001 0.220 0.173
 Hispanic (other) 24 (3.8) 181 (6.3) 38 (5.7) 31 (2.4)
 Other (including multiracial) 22 (5.4) 155 (6.0) 23 (4.1) 32 (6.9)
Marital status, n (weighted %)
 Married 130 (54.1) 479 (47.0) 161 (60.1) 257 (57.0)
 Widowed 58 (14.3) 66 (3.9) 43 (12.1) 60 (9.4)
 Divorced 58 (16.0) 143 (11.3) 46 (14.6) 91 (18.5) <0.001 0.814 0.590
 Separated 13 (3.6) 40 (2.8) 13 (4.4) 20 (2.8)
 Never married 32 (7.4) 314 (27.3) 26 (6.2) 29 (6.2)
 Living with partner 8 (4.6) 108 (7.8) 9 (2.6) 21 (6.1)
Health insurance coverage, n (weighted %)
 Covered by health insurance 253 (87.2) 1,257 (81.6) 257 (90.2) 410 (86.9) 0.055 0.304 0.932
Insurance type (categories not mutually exclusive)
 Private 129 (57.2) 743 (59.3) 145 (65.6) 242 (61.5) 0.660 0.074 0.437
 Medicare 132 (36.1) 193 (10.4) 120 (33.9) 210 (35.4) <0.001 0.605 0.837
 Medicaid 53 (11.8) 280 (11.5) 42 (9.1) 56 (8.1) 0.905 0.315 0.114
 Other 39 (12.1) 220 (12.2) 43 (11.9) 68 (12.0) 0.970 0.952 0.878

Notes: All statistics are weighted to account for NHANES complex survey design (including oversampling), survey nonresponse, and post-stratification.

a

P-values shown against overall categories or individual parameters as applicable.

Abbreviations: ACO, asthma–COPD overlap; BMI, body mass index; NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; SD, standard deviation.