Characteristics of Kaiser Permanente Southern California members identified by the SEARCH Registry Study from 2002-2016 who remained health plan members and had healthcare encounters with diagnosis codes for diabetes from October 1, 2015 to November 30, 2016
Characteristic | Total (N=2563) | Type 1 diabetes (N=1911) | Type 2 diabetes (N=652) |
Age (years) on October 1, 2015; mean±SD | 19.1±6.5 | 18.5±6.9 | 20.9±4.9 |
Age (years) on October 1, 2015; range | 1.0–33.7 | 1.0–33.7 | 8.9–33.7 |
Female; number (%) | 1333 (52.0) | 947 (49.6) | 386 (59.2) |
Race/ethnicity*; number (%) | |||
Hispanic | 1236 (48.2) | 864 (45.2) | 372 (57.1) |
Asian/Pacific Islander | 129 (5.0) | 71 (3.7) | 58 (8.9) |
Non-Hispanic black | 336 (13.1) | 223 (11.7) | 113 (17.3) |
Non-Hispanic white | 733 (28.6) | 657 (34.4) | 76 (11.7) |
Other/unknown | 129 (5.0) | 96 (5.0) | 33 (5.1) |
BMI category†; number (%) | |||
Underweight | 38 (1.5) | 36 (1.9) | 2 (0.3) |
Normal weight | 914 (36.0) | 873 (46.0) | 41 (6.3) |
Overweight | 677 (26.4) | 564 (30.0) | 113 (17.9) |
Obese | 858 (33.5) | 384 (20.1) | 474 (73.0) |
Number of healthcare encounters; median (IQR) | 5 (4) | 5 (4) | 4 (4) |
*All categories except Hispanic are non-Hispanic, except for other/unknown category, which might include Hispanic persons in the unknown group.
† BMI is missing for 76 persons.