Table 2.1:
Summary of baseline characteristics: mean (standard deviation) and percentage.
| Sociodemographics | |
| Age | 69.91 (10.76) |
| Female | 53% |
| White | 93% |
| Medicaid | 14% |
| Utilization | |
| Adverse event count | 0.58 (0.88) |
| Hierarchical condition categories | 1.41 (0.98) |
| Number of emergency room visits | 0.12 (0.37) |
| Comorbidity and complication | |
| Count of low prevalence conditions | 0.21 (0.54) |
| Chronic kidney disease | 14% |
| Chronic pulmonary disease | 18% |
| Dementia | 5% |
| Depression | 16% |
| Entitlement disability | 18% |
| Eye disease | 14% |
| Hypertension | 85% |
| Hypothyroidism | 14% |
| Fluid and electrolyte disorders | 14% |
| Other neurological disorders | 7% |
| Obesity | 16% |
| Psychoses | 9% |
| Renal failure | 7% |
| Solid tumor without metastasis | 6% |
| Lower extremity ulcer | 7% |
| Valvular disease | 8% |
| Kidney damage-light | 16% |
| Kidney damage-mild | 51% |
| Kidney damage-moderate | 30% |
| Kidney damage-severe | 3% |
| Congestive heart failure | 19% |
| Ischemic heart disease | 21% |
| Medication prescribed | |
| Insulin | 13% |
| Sulfonylureas | 17% |
| Hypoglycemics | 16% |
| Other | 54% |