Table 1.

Organic food consumption in the Health and Retirement Study population by covariates (n 3719)

Characteristics	Organic food consumption (no) (n 1981)*	Organic food consumption (yes) (n 1738)*	P
Age (years)			< 0·0001†
Mean	65·06	63·46
se	0·31	0·35
BMI			0·0295†
Underweight	0·39	0·98
Normal	17·8	20·62
Overweight	32·83	33·7
Obese	48·99	44·69
Gender			0·0099†
Female	52·17	57·25
Race			0·2019
White	80·05	81·33
Black	9·05	6·82
Hispanic	7·79	8·09
Other	3·11	3·76
High blood pressure	58·25	50·17	< 0·0001†
Diabetes	22·61	16·59	0·0003†
Current smoker	25·02	19·81	0·0538
Alcohol consumption (per d in g)	6·64(0·49)	8·36(0·56)	0·0418†
Moderate or vigorous physical activity			< 0·0001†
Hardly ever or never	16·91	8·94
A few times per month	12·6	7·49
Once a week or more	70·49	83·57
Years of education			< 0·0001†
Less than high school	13·92	10·14
High school grad	37·6	23·2
Some college/college grad	39·29	44·78
Post-college	9·19	21·87
Total net worth			0·3347
Mean	479 481	612 838
se	127 638	57 136
Currently working	43·59	52·47	< 0·0001†

^*With the exception of missing values for high blood pressure (9), diabetes (11), current smoker (1720), moderate or vigorous physical activity (11) and currently working (1).

^†Significant P-values below 0·05.