Racial/Ethnic Variability in Diabetes Mellitus among United States Residents Is Unexplained by Lifestyle, Sociodemographics and Prognostic Factors

Table 2

The comparison of diabetes mellitus by race/ethnicity in a sample of community-based United States residents.

Variables	Caucasian		African american		Hispanic		Others		χ ^2 (df)	p
	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%
Diabetes mellitus									49.1 (3)	<0.001
Yes	1,580	7.8	459	11.0	415	7.7	90	8.2
No	18,589	92.2	3,709	89.0	5,001	92.3	1,009	91.8

Notes and abbreviations: the significance level is <0.01, df: degree of freedom, %: percentage.