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Educational Attainment Better Protects Non-Latino than Latino People Against Diabetes Mellitus

Global Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases | Vol 4, Issue 1

Table 1. Descriptive data

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

*p<0.05 for comparison of Latino and non-Latino