Socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity independently predict health decline among older diabetics

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Table 1 Distributrion of Pooled Sample Characteristics by Self-Rated Health among Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes, 1992-2006

	Unwgtd. N	1 (Poor)	2	3	4	5 (Excellent)
Race/ethnicity
White (%)	1846	27.25	29.69	27.19	13.22	2.65
Black (%)	467	31.48	38.12	21.41	7.49	1.5
Hispanic (%)	181	27.07	43.65	22.65	5.52	1.1
Education at baseline
Less than high school (%)	1907	34.86	35.83	19.95	7.59	1.77
High school/GED (%)	357	25.06	28.94	30.88	12.92	2.20
Some college or more (%)	229	18.60	29.86	30.38	17.58	3.58
Mean household income per year (in $100 s) ^†	10342	206.91	252.56	365.27	371.26	421.14
Mean household assets (in $1000 s)^†	10342	13.88	18.87	33.15	39.61	35.52
Mean BMI ^†	10207	26.27	26.91	27.09	26.68	26.79
Health insurance at baseline
No private health insurance (%)	1317	36.49	32.43	25.68	2.70	2.70
Private health insurance (%)	957	24.00	37.33	28.00	8.00	2.76
Sex
Male (%)	1114	27.02	31.60	26.84	11.94	2.60
Female (ref) (%)	1380	28.84	32.83	24.93	11.30	2.10
Comorbidities at baseline (in addition to diabetes)
0 (%)	115	6.09	26.96	40.00	18.26	8.70
1 (%)	310	16.13	27.74	31.29	22.26	2.58
2 (%)	639	19.41	31.92	31.46	13.93	3.29
3 (%)	722	28.95	35.32	23.82	9.83	2.08
4 (%)	473	39.75	33.19	19.24	7.40	0.42
5 or more (%)	234	51.28	30.77	15.38	1.71	0.85
Working Status at baseline
Not working (%)	2382	28.76	32.62	25.19	11.29	2.14
Working (ref) (%)	104	9.62	25.00	39.42	19.23	6.73
Mean age^†	10340	80.47	80.98	80.78	80.73	80.83

^†Indicates variables that vary across waves. Variables measured at baseline have a maximum of 2494 observations. Variables that vary across waves have pooled respondent samples, with a maximum of 19061 observations from 1992-2006.

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