Epidemiological trends and geographic variation in hospital admissions for diverticulitis in the United States

Table 1 Demographics of admissions for acute colonic diverticulitis

	Geographic region (%)
	Northeast	Midwest	South	West
Age group
15-24 yr	< 1	< 1	< 1	< 1
25-44 yr	17	15	15	16
45-64 yr	38	35	36	37
≥ 65 yr	44	50	49	46
Sex
Male	42	40	39	43
Female	58	60	61	57
Race1
Non-hispanic white	86	93	80	76
Black	6	5	9	4
Hispanic	6	< 1	9	15
Other	2	2	2	3

¹Based on admissions with race data which was missing in 25%.