Difference by Socioeconomic Category
We identified significantly worse socioeconomic indicators for patients who attend our satellite clinics as compared to our UAB clinic for poverty level (20.3±4.2 vs 16.8±3.6, p=0.0001), median household income ($45,704±7,048 vs $52,841±7,853 p=0.0001) and the percent of adults in the community with less than a high school diploma (15.6±3.5 vs 12.2±3.6, p=0.0001) (Table 4). When analyzing HbF by socioeconomic data, we did not identify an association between HbF levels with poverty level (p= 1.0), median household income (p=0.8) or percent of adults in the community with less than a high school diploma (p=0.7). Finally, we repeated our regression analysis to determine if community poverty level or median household income impacted HbF value in addition to our prior variables of clinic location, age, and number of clinic visits. Again, only number of clinic visits (p=0.02) and age (p=0.003) significantly impacted HbF but clinic location did not significantly impact HbF when including socioeconomic data.