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Table 1 Detailed description of the patients and concentration indices for diabetes

From: Changes in health inequalities for patients with diabetes among middle-aged and elderly in China from 2011 to 2015

Variable

2011

2013

2015

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

Gender

 male

7429 (48.06)

7869 (47.47)

7792 (47.26)

 female

8028 (51.94)

8707 (52.53)

8694 (52.74)

Age (mean ± SD)

59.3 ± 9.6

60.2 ± 9.8

61.6 ± 9.7

Marriage

 married

12,588 (81.44)

13,594 (82.01)

13,308 (80.72)

 single

2869 (18.56)

2982 (17.99)

3178 (19.28)

Education

 illiterate

4293 (27.77)

4497 (27.13)

4407 (26.73)

 literate

11,164 (72.23)

12,079 (72.87)

12,079 (73.27)

Log-Income (mean ± SD)

4.04 ± 0.67

4.01 ± 0.68

3.85 ± 0.68

Residence

 urban

5839 (37.78)

6266 (37.80)

6160 (37.37)

 rural

9618 (62.22)

10,310 (62.20)

10,326 (62.63)

Region

 Central and eastern

10,433 (67.50)

11,083 (66.86)

11,054 (67.05)

 West

5024 (32.50)

5493 (33.14)

5432 (32.95)

BMI (mean ± SD)

23.53 ± 3.86

23.81 ± 3.83

23.80 ± 3.75

Smoke

 smoker

6205 (40.14)

5897 (35.58)

4968 (30.13)

 non-smoker

9252 (59.86)

10,679 (64.42)

11,518 (69.87)

Drink

 drinker

4808 (31.11)

5336 (32.19)

5271 (31.97)

 non-drinker

10,649 (68.89)

11,240 (67.81)

11,215 (68.03)

Diabetes

867 (5.61)

1242 (7.49)

1482 (8.99)

CI

0.1359

0.1207

0.1021

(95% confidence interval)

(0.0525–0.0597)

(0.0709–0.0789)

(0.0855–0.0942)