Table 1.

Demographics according to distance from closest VA rheumatology site.

Characteristics	Near (< 40 miles), n = 7038		Intermediate (40–99 miles), n = 3995		Far (≥ 100 miles), n = 1556
Characteristics	Freq/Mean (%/SD)	95% CI	Freq/Mean (%/SD)	95% CI	Freq/Mean (%/SD)	95% CI
Age, yrs	70.3 (12.1)	70.0–70.6	71.0 (11.3)	70.7–71.4	71.4 (11.5)	70.9–72.0
Male	6558 (93.2)	92.6–93.8	3808 (95.3)	94.6–95.9	1481 (95.2)	94.0–96.1
Race
White	5554 (78.9)	78.0–79.9	3130 (78.4)	77.0–79.6	1242 (79.8)	77.8–81.7
Black	641 (9.1)	8.5–9.8	293 (7.3)	6.6–8.2	58 (3.7)	2.9–4.8
Other^*	141 (2.0)	1.7–2.4	51.0 (1.3)	1.0–1.7	36 (2.3)	1.7–3.2
Unknown^†	702 (10.0)	9.3–10.7	521 (13.0)	12.0–14.1	220 (14.1)	12.5–16.0
Ethnicity
Hispanic	342 (4.9)	4.4–5.4	138 (3.5)	2.9–4.1	67 (4.3)	3.4–5.4
Non-Hispanic	6323 (89.8)	89.1–90.5	3561 (89.1)	88.1–90.1	1377 (88.5)	86.8–90
Unknown	373 (5.3)	4.8–5.9	296 (7.4)	6.6–8.3	112 (7.2)	6.0–8.6

↵* Other race includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Other Pacific Islander.
↵† Unknown includes declined to answer, unknown by patient, and null. VA: US Veterans Administration; Freq: frequency.