Educational Attainment Better Protects Non-Latino than Latino People Against Diabetes Mellitus
Table 1.
Descriptive data
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All (n = 6782) |
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Non-Latino (n = 5952) |
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Latino (n = 830) |
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Mean |
Std. Deviation |
Mean |
Std. Deviation |
Mean |
Std. Deviation |
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| Age (Yrs) * |
48 |
16 |
50 |
16 |
39 |
14 |
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| Education Years* |
11.10 |
2.270 |
11.21 |
2.222 |
10.34 |
2.459 |
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n |
% |
n |
% |
n |
% |
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| Ethnicity |
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| Non-Latino |
5,953 |
87.8 |
5,953 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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| Latino |
830 |
12.2 |
0 |
0 |
830 |
100 |
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| Race |
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| White |
6,141 |
90.5 |
5,336 |
89.6 |
805 |
97.0 |
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| Black |
642 |
9.5 |
617 |
10.4 |
25 |
3.0 |
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| Gender* |
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| Men |
2,886 |
42.5 |
2,606 |
43.8 |
280 |
33.7 |
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| Women |
3,897 |
57.5 |
3,347 |
56.2 |
550 |
66.3 |
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| Married* |
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| No |
2,904 |
42.8 |
2,495 |
41.9 |
409 |
49.3 |
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| Yes |
3,877 |
57.2 |
3,456 |
58.1 |
421 |
50.7 |
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| In Labor market* |
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| No |
2,833 |
41.8 |
2,511 |
42.2 |
322 |
38.8 |
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| Yes |
3,945 |
58.2 |
3,437 |
57.7 |
508 |
61.2 |
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| US Born |
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| No |
435 |
6.4 |
217 |
3.6 |
218 |
26.3 |
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| Yes |
6,348 |
93.6 |
5,736 |
96.4 |
612 |
73.7 |
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| Diabetes |
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| No |
6,003 |
88.5 |
5,254 |
88.3 |
749 |
90.2 |
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| Yes |
780 |
11.5 |
699 |
11.7 |
81 |
9.8 |
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*p<0.05 for comparison of Latino and non-Latino
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