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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2015 Jul 22;29(5):436–443. doi: 10.1111/ppe.12209

Table 1.

Patient characteristics, across race/ethnicity

Patient characteristics Non-Hispanic white Non-Hispanic black Hispanic Asian
Indian
Chinese Filipino Japanese Korean Vietnamese
Total number 9011 432 3777 5069 3206 1096 682 462 460
Age at delivery (years) 32.9 30.8 29.6 31.3 34.3 32.6 34.8 33.9 33.9
 ≥35years (%) 38.1 27.8 21.6 18.0 46.9 35.0 51.9 42.2 43.7
Education (%)
 High school or less 10.7 24.4 49.1 1.2 1.6 7.4 7.0 2.8 8.8
 Some college 16.2 30.6 25.5 1.4 4.3 25.5 14.7 7.7 10.3
 College degree or above 73.1 45.0 25.4 97.4 94.1 67.1 78.3 89.5 80.9
Parity (%)
 0 57.1 53.5 44.6 55.8 60.7 49.5 58.2 56.7 53.9
 1 30.4 28.2 31.8 41.4 33.4 32.0 34.2 35.3 34.8
 2 or more 12.5 18.3 23.6 2.8 5.9 18.5 7.6 8.0 11.3
Smoking (%) 1.6 2.6 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.8 0.3 0.4 0.7
Primary Insurance (%)
 Medi-Cal 4.7 13.9 28.1 0.3 0.8 1.6 0.3 0.9 2.0
 HMO 35.0 35.4 30.5 27.6 38.7 43.6 22.4 30.7 39.8
 PPO 58.8 44.4 38.3 71.8 59.8 53.3 74.6 67.5 57.2
 Other 1.5 6.3 3.1 0.3 0.7 1.5 2.7 0.9 1.0
Pre-pregnancy BMI (%)
 Normal weight (BMI < 25) 70.1 48.4 49.8 71.9 91.1 69.9 92.5 87.5 88.9
 Overweight (25 ≤ BMI < 30) 20.3 29.2 30.0 23.4 7.8 20.9 6.5 10.0 9.6
 Obese (BMI ≥ 30) 9.6 22.4 20.2 4.7 1.1 9.2 1.0 2.5 1.5
Pre-pregnancy BMI (WHO/ADA) (%)
 Normal weight (BMI < 23) 49.5 76.7 46.4 81.7 71.2 75.7
 Overweight (23 ≤ BMI < 27.5) 39.0 20.5 37.2 15.5 24.0 19.3
 Obese (BMI ≥ 27.5) 11.5 2.8 16.4 2.8 4.8 5.0
Family history of T2DM (%) 36.0 47.6 57.1 58.4 39.7 58.1 31.3 37.4 46.9
Nativity (%)
 Foreign-borne 21.2 27.6 50.0 97.0 85.8 68.6 85.9 85.5 90.4
GDM (%) 7.0 4.9 10.8 17.8 16.4 18.8 8.5 12.1 18.7
Age-adjusted GDM (%) 7.0 4.9 13.3 19.3 15.3 19.0 9.7 12.9 18.8

PPO, preferred provider organisation; HMO, health maintenance organisation.