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Table 1 Social characteristics of participants

From: Comparison of a French pediatric type 1 diabetes cohort’s responders and non-responders to an environmental questionnaire

 

Responders

Non-responders

p Value

Characteristic

n =946

n =1886

Wilcoxon test

Logistic regression

Townsend deprivation index

2.85 ± 4.15 (2.00, −6.86-16.22)

4.04 ± 4.27 (3.87, −5.31-16.22)

1 × 10−12

2 × 10−7

Unemployment (% of those ≥16 yr and economically active)

10.30 ± 4.41 (9.39, 0.00-30.59)

11.49 ± 4.82 (10.90, 1.26-30.59)

4 × 10−10

0.005

Blue-collar workers (% of all households)

18.53 ± 7.69 (17.81, 0.00-50.00)

19.38 ± 7.80 (18.85, 0.00-50.00)

0.004

0.0002

White-collar workers (% of all households)

10.67 ± 7.52 (8.83, 0.00-50.09)

10.16 ± 7.07 (8.33, 0.00-38.10)

0.06

0.70

Non-car ownership (% of all households)

14.95 ± 11.33 (11.73, 0.00-74.81)

17.54 ± 11.47 (15.52, 0.00-69.42)

2 × 10−11

0.24

Farmers (% of all households)

1.69 ± 3.20 (0.42, 0.00-40.00)

1.38 ± 2.71 (0.18, 0.00-21.05)

2 × 10−5

0.85

Household overcrowding (% of all households)

1.50 ± 0.53 (1.43, 0.00-3.20)

1.65 ± 0.55 (1.59, 0.00-3.53)

6 × 10−12

0.02

Non-home ownership (% of all households)

36.67 ± 17.94 (32.99, 4.17-85.72)

41.22 ± 18.49 (40.14, 3.36-85.72)

7 × 10−10

0.24

Income (€/yr)

27784 ± 6677 (27298, 5902–67313)

26636 ± 6449 (25294, 5902–67509)

8 × 10−6

0.64

Access rate to high school graduate (% of all households)

37.88 ± 11.27 (36.73, 9.76-79.53)

37.19 ± 11.39 (35.31, 13.33-79.22)

0.04

0.10

Population density (inhabitants/km2)

3114 ± 5870 (1026, 7–49362)

3557 ± 5445 (1468, 2–49362)

5 × 10−5

0.45

Urban units index

3.92 ± 3.09 (4, 0–8)

4.36 ± 3.06 (6, 0–8)

0.0002

0.83

Europeans (% of all patients)

84%

73%

3 × 10−9

9 × 10−5

  1. Values are means ± standard deviation (median, range).
  2. All variables except origin were estimated on an environmental level (see Methods).