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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Board Fam Med. 2019 Nov-Dec;32(6):801–806. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2019.06.190092

Table 1.

Population Characteristics by Diabetes Status in NHANES 2013 to 2014 (N = 4434)

Characteristic Overall* No Diabetes (n = 3810),
% (95% CI)
Diabetes (n = 624),
% (95% CI)
P-Value

Age (years)
 20 to 44  1862 96.4 (95.2 to 97.5)    3.6 (2.5 to 4.8) <.0001
 45 to 64  1562 86.0 (83.3 to 88.8)  14.0 (11.2 to 16.70
 65+  1010 78.8 (76.6 to 81.0)  21.2 (19.0 to 23.4)
Sex, %
 Male  2060 88.4 (86.8 to 89.9)  11.6 (10.1 to 13.2)   .08
 Female  2374 89.9 (88.6 to 91.3)  10.1 (8.7 to 11.4)
Race
 Non-Hispanic white  1988 90.0 (88.7 to 91.1)  10.0 (8.8 to 11.3)   .0005
 Non-Hispanic Black    884 85.0 (82.5 to 87.4)  15.0 (12.6 to 17.5)
 Hispanic    979 89.2 (86.7 to 91.7)  10.8 (8.3 to 13.3)
 Other    583 88.4 (85.7 to 91.0)  11.6 (9.0 to 14.3)
Education
 ≥High school  3524 90.1 (88.8 to 91.4)    9.9 (8.6 to 11.2) <.0001
 <High school    847 83.6 (81.3 to 86.0)  16.4 (14.0 to 18.7)
Health insurance
 Yes  3533 88.3 (87.0 to 89.6)  11.7 (10.4 to 13.0)   .0006
 No    896 93.4 (91.2 to 95.6)    6.6 (4.4 to 8.8)
Physical activity
 ≥150 Minutes/week  1400 93.2 (91.3 to 95.2)    6.7 (4.8 to 8.7) <.0001
 <150 Minutes/week  3034 87.0 (86.0 to 88.0)  13.0 (11.9 to 14.0)
Body mass index
 Underweight (<18.5 kg/m2)      68 97.9 (94.7 to 100)    2.1 (0.0 to 5.3) <.0001
 Normal (18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2)  1208 96.4 (95.3 to 97.5)    3.6 (2.5 to 4.7)
 Overweight (25 to 29.9 kg/m2)  1418 92.3 (91.0 to 93.6)    7.7 (6.4 to 9.0)
 Obese (≥30 kg/m2)  1707 81.3 (79.3 to 83.3)  18.7 (16.7 to 20.7)
Smoking
 Yes    833 91.9 (89.7 to 91.2)    8.1 (5.9 to 10.3)   .03
 No  3600 88.6 (87.2 to 90.0)  11.4 (10.0 to 12.8)
Alcohol use
 Yes  3081 90.5 (89.6 to 91.4)    9.5 (8.6 to 10.4) <.0001
 No  1174 83.9 (80.5 to 87.4)  16.1 (12.6 to 19.5)

NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; CI, confidence interval.

*

Unequal sample sizes due to missing values from subjects.

P-value for comparison of difference in proportion between diabetic and non-diabetic subjects, using χ2 test.