Table 1:
Demographics of Hypertensive Study Participants at Four University of California San Diego Student-Run Free Clinic Project Sites From January 2004 Through April 2016
| Characteristic | All | Downtown | Pacific Beach |
Mountain View |
Lemon Grove |
P Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of subjects | 496 | 210 | 149 | 123 | 14 | |
| Age, n (%) | .47 | |||||
| 18–39 | 75 (15.1) | 28 (13.3) | 21 (14.1) | 23 (18.7) | 3 (21.4) | |
| 40–59 | 320 (64.5) | 136 (64.8) | 102 (68.5) | 72 (58.5) | 10 (71.4) | |
| 60+ | 101 (20.4) | 46 (21.9) | 26 (17.4) | 28 (22.8) | 1 (7.1) | |
| Age, mean (SD) | 50.9 (10.8) | 51.5 (10.8) | 50.0 (10.3) | 51.6 (11.8) | 46.4 (7.7) | |
| Gender, n (%) | <.0001 | |||||
| Female | 294 (59.3) | 128 (61) | 68 (45.6) | 89 (72.4) | 9 (64.3) | |
| Male | 202 (40.7) | 82 (39) | 81 (54.4) | 34 (27.6) | 5 (35.7) | |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | <.0001 | |||||
| White | 92 (18.9) | 46 (22.1) | 45 (31.2) | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0) | |
| Hispanic | 346 (71.2) | 134 (64.4) | 85 (59) | 113 (94.2) | 14 (100) | |
| Black | 15 (3.1) | 7 (3.4) | 3 (2.1) | 5 (4.2) | 0 (0) | |
| Asian | 21 (4.3) | 14 (6.7) | 6 (4.2) | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0) | |
| Other | 12 (2.5) | 7 (3.4) | 5 (3.5) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Housing status, n (%) | <.0001 | |||||
| Housed | 392 (84.5) | 167 (85.2) | 103 (72.5) | 109 (96.5) | 13 (100) | |
| Homeless | 72 (15.5) | 29 (14.8) | 39 (27.5) | 4 (3.5) | 0 (0) | |
| Primary language, n (%) | <.0001 | |||||
| English | 159 (32.1) | 78 (37.1) | 69 (46.3) | 11 (8.9) | 1 (7.1) | |
| Other | 23 (4.6) | 11 (5.2) | 6 (4) | 4 (3.3) | 2 (14.3) | |
| Spanish | 314 (63.3) | 121 (57.6) | 74 (49.7) | 108 (87.8) | 11 (78.6) | |
| Diabetes, n (%) | .0013 | |||||
| No | 169 (34.1) | 69 (32.9) | 62 (41.6) | 29 (23.6) | 9 (64.3) | |
| Yes | 327 (65.9) | 141 (67.1) | 87 (58.4) | 94 (76.4) | 5 (35.7) |
*
Demographic information is queried from a database populated by information on initial intake forms filled out by patients. If a patient leaves a section blank on their initial intake form, no information is recorded in the database for that demographic variable.
†
Diagnoses, including diabetes, are recorded in the database and Electronic Health Record by health care providers including medical students and faculty physicians at each visit.