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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2020 Apr 30;225:88–96. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2020.04.018

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Overall
N=7628
Diabetes
N=2943
No Diabetes
N=4685
p-value
Demographics
Age (year) 68.0 (59.0, 75.0) 66.0 (58.0, 73.0) 68.0 (60.0, 75.0) <0.001
Female Gender 47.3% 47.1% 47.5% 0.77
White Race 84.8% 78.8% 88.6% <0.001
Insurance
 Private 58.1% 52.8% 61.4% <0.001
 Government 39.6% 44.3% 36.7%
 Other 2.3% 2.9% 2.0%
Highest level of education
 Middle School 7.0% 7.2% 6.8% <0.001
 High School 30.0% 32.9% 28.2%
 Some College 26.9% 28.1% 26.2%
 College Graduate 24.2% 21.6% 25.8%
 Post-Graduate Degree 12.0% 10.3% 13.0%
Clinic Visit Data
Body Mass Index (kg/m2) 29.7 (26.1, 34.3) 32.0 (28.2, 36.9) 28.5 (25.3, 32.6) <0.001
 Obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) 48.1% 62.5% 39.2% <0.001
SBP ≥140 mmHg or DBP ≥90 mmHg 27.6% 29.6% 26.4% 0.002
Clinician Specialty*
 Cardiology 31.8% 25.4% 35.9% <0.001
 Endocrinology 3.03% 6.8% 0.6%
 Primary Care 40.1% 44.4% 37.4%
 Other 0.7% 0.7% 0.7%
Medical History
Any ASCVD 43.0% 44.2% 42.3% 0.09
Coronary Artery Disease 33.1% 33.5% 32.8% 0.53
Stroke 4.3% 5.7% 3.4% <0.001
Peripheral Arterial Disease 6.5% 8.3% 5.3% <0.001
Myocardial Infarction 12.7% 12.5% 12.8% 0.69
CABG 10.1% 12.0% 9.0% <0.001
Heart Failure 8.7% 9.9% 8.0% 0.004
Hypertension 77.4% 85.2% 72.5% <0.001
Chronic Kidney Disease 9.5% 13.3% 7.1% <0.001
Dialysis 0.5% 0.8% 0.2% <0.001

SBP: Systolic Blood pressure; DBP: Diastolic Blood pressure

CABG: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

*

Clinician specialty missing in 24.3% of all patients; 22.7% of patients with DM and 25.3% of patients without DM