Table 1 |
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| Characteristics of participants by race-ethnicity, Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) | ||||
| Sample weighted distribution by race-ethnicity1 | ||||
| Non-Hispanic White | Non-Hispanic Black | Mexican American | ||
| Characteristics | (n = 1231) | (n = 901) | (n = 909) | p-value2 |
| HbA1c(%) (SE) | 5.22 (0.015) | 5.36 (0.022) | 5.30 (0.016) | <.0001 |
| Age (years) | ||||
| Mean (SE) | 43.7 (0.52) | 39.6 (0.52) | 35.6 (0.45) | <.0001 |
| Sex | ||||
| Male, % (95% CI) | 48.6 (45.1–52.2) | 44.1 (40.6–47.7) | 53.3 (49.6–57.0) | |
| Female, % (95% CI) | 51.4 (47.9–54.9) | 55.9 (52.3–59.4) | 46.7 (43.0–50.4) | 0.2713 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | ||||
| >25 (95% CI) | 45.1 (41.6–48.6) | 33.4 (30.0–36.7) | 32.4 (28.9–35.9) | |
| 25 to >30 (95% CI) | 34.3 (30.9–37.8) | 36.3 (32.8–39.7) | 41.6 (37.9–45.3) | |
| > 30 (95% CI) | 20.6 (17.9–23.4) | 30.4 (27.2–33.6) | 26.1 (22.7–29.4) | <.0001 |
CI = confidence interval; Std Dev: standard deviation; SE: standard error; BMI: Body Mass Index; NHW: non-Hispanic white; NHB: Non-Hispanic black; MA: Mexican American.
1. For continuous variables, means were adjusted for age and sex.
2. p-values were tests for the difference across race-ethnicity based on Satterthwaite adjusted-F statistics for continuous variables and X2 for categorical variables.
Grimsby et al. BMC Medical Genetics 2012 13:30 doi:10.1186/1471-2350-13-30
