Research Article

The Mississippi Delta Cardiovascular Health Examination Survey: Study Design and Methods

Table 3

Power to detect statistically significant differences in rates of diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension between non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white residents of the Mississippi Delta region.

ConditionNon-Hispanic blacks Prevalence (%)aNon-Hispanic whites Prevalence (%)aPower ( ) for alpha = 0.05Total sample size

Diabetes16.010.2 0.801,006
Dyslipidemia35.945.20.80874
Hypertension42.534.70.801,234

From the 2007 and 2009 combined Mississippi Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.