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. 2019 Jul 13;15:100953. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100953

Table 2.

Sample characteristics, by diabetes and hypertension control status, Philadelphia, PA, 2016.


Diabetes control
Hypertension control
Characteristica HbA1c > 9
No HbA1c value in past year
Total poor diabetes control
Controlled diabetes

Poor hypertension control
Controlled hypertension

N (%) or mean (SD) N (%) or mean (SD) N (%) or mean (SD) N (%) or mean (SD) pb N (%) or mean (SD) N (%) or mean (SD) pb
Total 265 (25%) 114 (11%) 379 (36%) 682 (64%) 1239 (47%) 1394 (53%)
Individual characteristics
Age (years) 47.1 (12.5) 47.1 (13.9) 47.1 (12.9) 51.4 (11.6) <0.001 48.4 (12.5) 49.0 (13.2) 0.24
Female 168 (63%) 85 (75%) 253 (67%) 463 (68%) 0.71 824 (67%) 986 (71%) 0.02
Insurance status 0.09 <0.001
 Medicaid 142 (54%) 62 (54%) 204 (54%) 373 (55%) 661 (53%) 773 (55%)
 Medicare 45 (17%) 28 (25%) 73 (19%) 166 (24%) 225 (18%) 293 (21%)
 Private insurance 54 (20%) 15 (13%) 69 (18%) 95 (14%) 223 (18%) 248 (18%)
 Uninsured 24 (9%) 9 (8%) 33 (9%) 48 (7%) 130 (10%) 80 (6%)



Neighborhood socioeconomic status
Deprivation score 0.22 (0.74) 0.17 (0.73) 0.20 (0.74) 0.22 (0.70) 0.64 0.26 (0.63) 0.18 (0.73) 0.005
Percent poverty 33.5 (11.4) 33.8 (10.2) 33.5 (11.0) 33.0 (10.8) 0.45 33.0 (10.6) 33.0 (10.9) 0.86
Percent bachelor's degree 16.1 (13.0) 15.6 (12.3) 15.9 (12.8) 15.6 (11.9) 0.72 14.9 (10.8) 16.0 (12.3) 0.01



Neighborhood social environment
Violent crime ratec 349 (165) 363 (164) 353 (165) 354 (162) 0.94 348 (147) 352 (163) 0.45
Perceived safety 0.81 (0.09) 0.80 (0.11) 0.81 (0.10) 0.81 (0.09) 0.61 0.81 (0.08) 0.81 (0.09) 0.22
Social capital 1.74 (0.19) 1.73 (0.18) 1.74 (0.19) 1.74 (0.19) 0.85 1.74 (0.20) 1.74 (0.19) 0.42
High segregationd 171 (65%) 73 (64%) 244 (64%) 394 (58%) 0.04 819 (66%) 795 (57%) <0.001



Neighborhood walkability
Percent retail land use 4.47 (3.90) 4.97 (4.31) 4.61 (4.03) 5.25 (4.29) 0.02 4.73 (4.08) 4.99 (4.32) 0.11
Intersection density 107.6 (38.5) 115.4 (45.4) 110.0 (40.8) 108.6 (41.3) 0.59 108.8 (39.1) 110.4 (41.2) 0.30
a

N (%) for total, gender, insurance status, and neighborhood high segregation. Mean (SD) for all other characteristics.

b

P-value from chi-square test for categorical variables and t-test for continuous variables. P-value for diabetes control is for test of total uncontrolled vs. total controlled.

c

Per 10,000 population.

d

Getis-Ord Gi z-score ≥ 1.96 for African American population.