Table 3

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with type 2 diabetes

	History of CVE		Two risk factors		Aged ≥40 years
	N=9823		N=62 049		N=128 691
	N	Per cent	N	Per cent	N	Per cent
Age (mean and SD)	58.6	10.0	59.4	8.0	57.0	9.3
Age by category
<65	7886	80.3	50 446	81.3	108 169	84.1
≥65	1937	19.7	11 603	18.7	20 522	15.9
Gender
Male	6453	65.7	38 364	61.8	71 234	55.4
US geographic distribution
Northeast	3169	32.3	19 269	31.1	40 279	31.3
North Central	1876	19.1	16 332	26.3	32 970	25.6
West	4070	41.4	18 083	29.1	39 981	31.1
South	708	7.2	8365	13.5	15 461	12.0
Payer type
Health maintenance organization	1375	14.0	10 999	17.7	22 581	17.5
Indemnity	636	6.5	4055	6.5	7747	6.0
Preferred provider organization	6900	70.2	38 849	62.6	81 703	63.5
Point of service	898	9.1	7842	12.6	16 027	12.5
Consumer-directed healthcare	4	0.0	210	0.3	437	0.3
Unknown/missing	10	0.1	94	0.2	196	0.2
Baseline Deyo-Charlson comorbidity index score categories20
Mean (SD)	3.2	1.9	1.6	1.2	1.8	1.4
0	6	0.1	225	0.4	469	0.4
1	1319	13.4	42 458	68.4	80 474	62.5
2	3367	34.3	6852	11.0	18 246	14.2
≥3	5131	52.2	12 514	20.2	29 502	22.9
Baseline comorbidities
Hypertension	8499	86.5	54 964	88.6	92 748	72.1
Arrhythmias	2786	28.4	3187	5.1	9846	7.7
Chronic respiratory disease	2088	21.3	6203	10.0	15 269	11.9
Congestive heart failure	1837	18.7	1152	1.9	5052	3.9
Carotid artery disease	1535	15.6	718	1.2	3550	2.8
Peripheral arterial disease	1523	15.5	0	0.0	6428	5.0
Cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer)	683	7.0	3708	6.0	7286	5.7
End-stage renal disease	231	2.4	352	0.6	1063	0.8
Hemorrhagic stroke	196	2.0	62	0.1	325	0.3
Baseline concomitant medications
Antihypertensive medications	6666	67.9	48 493	78.2	80 649	62.7
Oral antidiabetic medications	4581	46.6	36 235	58.4	71 040	55.2
Insulin	1613	16.4	7085	11.4	15 883	12.3

CVE, cardiovascular event.