Table 1.
Variable |
Categories |
Total (%) |
Iron deficiency (%) |
No-iron deficiency (%) |
p-value |
Age (Years) | Mean (95% CI) | 65.4(63.0–67.8) | 66.6(63.2–70) | 64.3(59.6–69) | 0.463 |
BMI (Kg/m2) | Mean (95% CI) | 33.1(32.0–34.1) | 34.1(32.8–35.1) | 32.1(30.5–33.6) | 0.06 |
Gender | Male | 60.37 | 42.70 | 57.3 | 0.205 |
Female | 39.63 | 56.50 | 43.50 | ||
Educational status | Less than high school | 19.09 | 51.59 | 48.41 | 0.597 |
High school or GED | 36.93 | 48.58 | 51.42 | ||
Some college or Associate degree | 34.79 | 40.95 | 59.05 | ||
College degree and above | 9.20 | 66.75 | 33.25 | ||
Ethnicity | Hispanic | 7.84 | 34.22 | 65.78 | 0.310 |
Non-Hispanic black | 14.90 | 34.87 | 65.13 | ||
Non-Hispanic white | 69.82 | 54.15 | 45.85 | ||
Others | 7.44 | 33.38 | 66.62 | ||
Marital status | Never married | 09.14 | 20.74 | 79.26 | 0.194 |
Married or living with partner | 51.97 | 48.58 | 51.42 | ||
Divorced or separated | 21.60 | 59.32 | 40.68 | ||
Widowed | 17.29 | 47.53 | 52.47 | ||
Place of Birth | USA | 93.67 | 48.31 | 51.69 | 0.885 |
Non USA | 06.33 | 46.06 | 53.94 | ||
Health Insurance | Yes | 98.03 | 19.35 | 80.65 | 0.304 |
No | 1.97 | 48.75 | 51.52 | ||
Poverty index ratio | Below 1 | 17.64 | 52.36 | 47.64 | |
1 to 3 | 40.22 | 50.42 | 49.58 | 0.841 | |
3 and above | 42.14 | 45.51 | 54.49 | ||
0.100 | |||||
Smoking | Yes | 15.79 | 63.23 | 36.77 | |
No | 84.21 | 45.35 | 54.65 | ||
Diabetes | Yes | 49.85 | 61.03 | 38.97 | 0.022 |
No | 50.15 | 35.38 | 62.52 | ||
Chronic Kidney disease | Yes | 55.69 | 50.99 | 49.01 | 0.611 |
No | 44.31 | 44.63 | 55.37 | ||
Anemia | Yes | 12.08 | 47.45 | 52.55 | 0.938 |
No | 87.92 | 48.27 | 51.73 | ||
Hemoglobin | 13.9(13.5–14.2) | 13.6(13.2–14.0) | 14.2(13.6–14.7) | 0.107 |