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Table 1 Demographics of the patient population

From: Left atrial strain and diastolic function abnormalities in obese and type 2 diabetic adolescents and young adults

 

Normal weight (n = 101)

Obese (n = 114)

Type 2 diabetic (n = 116)

p-value

Age (years)

21.7 (18.7, 24.6)

23.3 (20, 25.4)

22.3 (19.3, 25.6)

0.1

Male (%)

48

31

33

<0.0001

Caucasian (%)

43

31

40

<0.0001

African-American (%)

55

83

71

<0.0001

Other ethnicity (%)

3

0

5

<0.0001

BMI (kg/m2)

22.5 (20.7, 24.4)

36.6 (32.4, 42.5)

35.8 (30.4, 42.6)

<0.0001

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)

110 (103, 117)

115 (109, 123)

118 (111, 127)

<0.0001

On blood pressure medication (%)

2

2

32

<0.0001

On metabolic medication (%)

0

1

58

<0.001

Duration of T2DM (years)

N/A

N/A

7.3 (5.3, 10.3)

N/A

  1. Data is presented as medians with interquartile range (25th and 75th percentile) in parenthesis. Metabolic medication are blood glucose lower medications (i.e. Metformin)
  2. BMI body mass index, T2DM type 2 diabetes mellitus, N/A not applicable