Table 4: Awareness of
hypertension by age and ethnicity among hypertensive female hotel room cleaners
(Las Vegas 2002, n = 846)
compared to the
hypertensive female U.S. working population (NHANES, 1999-2004, n = 29,402), by
health insurance coverage.
|
|
With
health insurance |
Without health
insurance |
||||
|
|
Las
Vegas hotel room cleaners |
NHANES |
NHANES |
|||
|
|
% |
95% CI |
% |
95% CI |
% |
95% CI |
|
Total |
61.7 |
54.1-68.9 |
71.3 |
63.9-77.8 |
63.0 |
48.6-75.4 |
|
Age
group (years) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20-39 |
35.5 |
19.2-54.6 |
66.7 |
49.8-80.2 |
44.4 |
20.9-70.6 |
|
40-59 |
65.9 |
57.2-73.9 |
77.8 |
71.9-82.8 |
64.2 |
45.0-79.7 |
|
≥
60 |
83.3 |
51.6-97.9 |
68.7 |
61.9-74.8 |
92.9 |
81.8-97.5 |
|
Race/Ethnicity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mexican American a |
61.5 |
49.8-72.3 |
68.3 |
46.8-84.1 |
43.9 |
25.2-64.4 |
|
Other Hispanic b |
64.0 |
49.2-77.1 |
81.1 |
57.1-93.3 |
87.0 |
62.0-96.5 |
|
White, non-Hispanic |
40.0 |
12.2-73.8 |
69.0 |
58.4-77.9 |
65.4 |
41.8-83.2 |
|
Black, non-Hispanic |
69.2 |
38.6-90.9 |
77.3 |
64.4-86.5 |
50.6 |
41.6-59.7 |
|
Other c |
62.5 |
40.6-81.2 |
75.7 |
59.9-86.6 |
64.1 |
32.0-87.1 |
a Mexican
American: Participants self-identified as Mexican American.
b Other Hispanic:
Participants self-identified as Latino but not Mexican American.
c Other: Participants
self-identified neither Mexican American nor as other Hispanic, white or black