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. 2020 Oct 19;9(10):e21377. doi: 10.2196/21377

Table 2.

Location, Environmental Attributes, and Disparities Network study population characteristics by site.

Characteristics G/JHUa NYUb UABc
Study population, n 578,485 6,082,246 11,199
Sex, n (%)

Male 254,218 (43.94) 5,578,056 (91.71) 4946 (44.16)

Female 324,267 (56.05) 504,020 (8.28) 6253 (55.83)
Age (years), n (%)d

<18 132,341 (22.87) 0 (0) 0 (0)

18-29 92,458 (15.98) 450,504 (7.40) 0 (0)

30-39 67,185 (11.61) 550,910 (9.05) 0 (0)

40-49 67,996 (11.75) 753,811 (12.39) 649 (5.79)

50-59 74,641 (12.90) 1,168,452 (19.21) 3445 (30.76)

60-69 63,946 (11.05) 1,566,257 (25.75) 4547 (40.60)

≥70 79,918 (13.81) 1,592,179 (26.17) 2558 (22.84)
Race, n (%)

Black 23,302 (4.02) 920,596 (15.13) 3672 (32.78)

American Indian or Alaska Native 655 (0.11) 56,928 (0.93) 0 (0)

Asian 4616 (0.79) 58,555 (0.96) 0 (0)

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 2746 (0.47) 60,441 (0.99) 0 (0)

White 542,128 (93.71) 4,411,233 (72.52) 7527 (67.21)
Ethnicity, n (%)

Hispanic 25,274 (4.36) 331,376 (5.44) 0 (0)

Non-Hispanic 553,211 (95.63) 5,750,870 (94.55) 11,199 (100.00)
Setting of residential address, n (%)

Higher density urbanized area 48,374 (8.36) 688,488 (11.31) 1809 (16.15)

Lower density urbanized area 76,301 (13.18) 2,139,912 (35.18) 4524 (40.39)

Suburban and small town (UC)e 178,548 (30.86) 1,328,278 (21.83) 2644 (23.60)

Rural 275, 272 (47.58) 1,781,743 (29.29) 2222 (19.84)
Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes by the end of the follow-up period, n (%)f 64,214 (11.10) 936,627 (15.39) 1408 (12.57)

aG/JHU: Geisinger and Johns Hopkins University.

bNYU: New York University.

cUAB: University of Alabama at Birmingham.

dG/JHU: age as of date of the data pull (2016); NYU: age calculated by subtracting year of birth from cohort entry year; UAB: age at baseline.

eUC: urban cluster

fSee Table 5 for diabetes definitions. G/JHU: 2008 to 2016; NYU: 2008 to 2016; UAB: 2003 to 2016.