Dyslipidemia treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus in a US managed care plan: a retrospective database analysis

Table 1 Demographic Information for Patients with Diabetes

Demographics	Total (N = 65,242)		Suboptimal Cohort (N = 53,679)		Optimal Cohort (N = 11,563)		p-value
	mean	std	mean	std	mean	std
Age (continuous)	52.43	10.53	52.39	10.22	52.61	11.86	0.0725
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Age							< 0.0001
< 45(M) or < 55(F)	22,697	34.79	19,011	35.42	3.686	31.88
> = 45(M) or > = 55(F)	42,545	65.21	34,668	64.58	7,877	68.12
Gender							< 0.0001
Male	34,538	52.94	27,695	51.59	6,843	59.18
Female	30,704	47.06	25,984	48.41	4,720	40.82
Geographic Location							< 0.0001
Northeast	8,695	13.33	7,061	13.15	1,634	14.13
Midwest	13,374	20.50	10,979	20.45	2,395	20.71
South	40,440	61.98	33,489	62.39	6,951	60.11
West	2,733	4.19	2,150	4.01	583	5.04

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