Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the patients and hospital by obesity defined by metabolic status
Variables | All | Non-Obesity | Obesity | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metabolically healthy n = 12367(56.0) | Metabolically unhealthy n = 7007(31.7) | Metabolically healthy n = 1294(5.9) | Metabolically unhealthy n = 1418(6.4) | |||
Age | < 0.001 | |||||
≤ 44 | 1918 (8.7) | 1627 (13.2) | 78 (1.1) | 187 (14.5) | 26 (1.8) | |
45–59 | 3623 (16.4) | 2455 (19.9) | 569 (8.1) | 345 (26.7) | 254 (17.9) | |
60–74 | 8329 (37.7) | 4453 (36.0) | 2643 (37.7) | 504 (38.9) | 729 (51.4) | |
≥ 75 | 8216 (37.2) | 3832 (31.0) | 3717 (53.0) | 258 (19.9) | 409 (28.8) | |
Male | 12639 (57.2) | 6991 (56.5) | 4181 (59.7) | 698 (53.9) | 769 (54.2) | < 0.001 |
Discharge disposition | < 0.001 | |||||
Routine | 13814 (62.5) | 8378 (67.7) | 3809 (54.4) | 835 (64.5) | 792 (55.9) | |
Care facility | 3548 (16.1) | 1663 (13.4) | 1416 (20.2) | 188 (14.5) | 281 (19.8) | |
Home with home health care | 4549 (20.6) | 2204 (17.8) | 1746 (24.9) | 265 (20.5) | 334 (23.6) | |
Against medical advice | 164 (0.7) | 116 (0.9) | 32 (0.5) | 5 (0.4) | 11 (0.8) | |
Discharged alive but destination unknown | 11 (0.0) | 6 (0.0) | 4 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | |
Hospitalization at a local hospital | 1485 (6.7) | 881 (7.1) | 414 (5.9) | 95 (7.3) | 95 (6.7) | 0.01 |
Household income | < 0.001 | |||||
0-25th percentile | 4714 (21.3) | 2596 (21.0) | 1446 (20.6) | 327 (25.3) | 345 (24.3) | |
26th to 50th percentile | 5815 (26.3) | 3188 (25.8) | 1870 (26.7) | 346 (26.7) | 411 (29.0) | |
51st to 75th percentile | 5764 (26.1) | 3222 (26.1) | 1817 (25.9) | 357 (27.6) | 368 (26.0) | |
76th to 100th percentile | 5793 (26.2) | 3361 (27.2) | 1874 (26.7) | 264 (20.4) | 294 (20.7) | |
Emergency department service | 14298 (64.7) | 7397 (59.8) | 5062 (72.2) | 824 (63.7) | 1015 (71.6) | < 0·001 |
Primary expected payer | < 0·001 | |||||
Medicare | 14120 (63.9) | 6859 (55.5) | 5639 (80.5) | 642 (49.6) | 980 (69.1) | |
Medicaid | 1759 (8.0) | 1280 (10.4) | 246 (3.5) | 151 (11.7) | 82 (5.8) | |
Private insurance | 5377 (24.3) | 3686 (29.8) | 953 (13.6) | 444 (34.3) | 294 (20.7) | |
Self-pay | 310 (1.4) | 232 (1.9) | 36 (0.5) | 21 (1.6) | 21 (1.5) | |
Other | 520 (2.4) | 310 (2.5) | 133 (1.9) | 36 (2.8) | 41 (2.9) | |
Patient location | <0·001 | |||||
“Central” counties of metro areas of >= 1 million population | 6157 (27.9) | 3525 (28.5) | 1904 (27.2) | 374 (28.9) | 354 (25.0) | |
“Fringe” counties of metro areas of >= 1 million population | 6233 (28.2) | 3412 (27.6) | 2098 (29.9) | 336 (26.0) | 387 (27.3) | |
Counties in metro areas of 250,000–999,999 population | 4715 (21.3) | 2636 (21.3) | 1512 (21.6) | 276 (21.3) | 291 (20.5) | |
Counties in metro areas of 50,000–249,999 population | 2025 (9.2) | 1121 (9.1) | 618 (8.8) | 128 (9.9) | 158 (11.1) | |
Micropolitan counties | 1667 (7.5) | 946 (7.6) | 480 (6.9) | 107 (8.3) | 134 (9.4) | |
Not metropolitan or micropolitan counties | 1289 (5.8) | 727 (5.9) | 395 (5.6) | 73 (5.6) | 94 (6.6) | |
Charlson comorbidity index | <0·001 | |||||
0 | 9507 (43.0) | 6440 (52.1) | 2059 (29.4) | 596 (46.1) | 412 (29.1) | |
1 | 6725 (30.4) | 3697 (29.9) | 2183 (31.2) | 404 (31.2) | 441 (31.1) | |
2 | 3600 (16.3) | 1506 (12.2) | 1568 (22.4) | 205 (15.8) | 321 (22.6) | |
>= 3 | 2254 (10.2) | 724 (5.9) | 1197 (17.1) | 89 (6.9) | 244 (17.2) | |