Population Distillation: Change in Characteristics
liver disease, kidney disease
CHRONIC ILLNESSES, ARRESTED, KIDNEY DISEASE, LIVER DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
As the population became more concentrated among those with the highest probabilities of engaged participation, a larger proportion of the most distilled sample were female (50.5% to 60.9%), were of Hispanic ethnicity (29.5% to 52.6%), did not have a high school degree (46.4% to 76.9%), reported having sufficient family support (59.8% to 69.9%), and had higher occurrences of specific chronic illnesses, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (44.5% to 67.9%) and kidney disease (31.6% to 57.9%). Patients with the highest probabilities of engaged participation were less likely to have been arrested (6.0% to 0.0%), to have had a substance use (32.6% to 25.6%) or alcohol-specific (13.4% to 7.1%) diagnoses at the hospital, and to have mild liver disease (11.9% to 2.6%) or moderate to severe liver disease (4.0% to 0.6%) (