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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroepidemiology. 2009 Jan 24;32(3):208–214. doi: 10.1159/000195691

Table 1.

Prevalence of ET by Gender, Ethnicity, and Age Stratum

Number of ET cases/Number of Participants Crude Prevalence Per 100 (95% CI)

Gender
 Men 38/659 5.8 (3.9–7.5)
 Women 70/1,306 5.4 (4.1–6.5)

Ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic White 18/589 3.1 (1.6–4.4)
 Non-Hispanic African-American 38/642 5.9 (4.1–7.7)
 Hispanic 51/702 7.3 (5.3–9.1)
 Other 1/32 3.1 (0.0–8.1)

Age (10 Year Strata)
 65–74 22/868 2.5 (1.5–3.5)
 75–84 55/812 6.8 (5.0–8.4)
 85–94 26/262 9.9 (6.3–13.5)
 95 and older 5/23 21.7 (4.4–37.7)

For gender, x2 = 0.14, p = 0.71.

For ethnicity, x2 = 11.55, p = 0.009. (For White vs. African-American, x2 = 5.80, p = 0.016; for White vs. Hispanic, x2 = 11.22, p = 0.001; for Hispanic vs. African-American, x2 = 0.98, p = 0.32).

For age (10 year strata), x2 = 38.78, p < 0.001.