Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for sociodemographic information, adolescence, pregnancy, and lifespan stressors, as well as telomere length (TL) of mother-child dyads

			Entire sample	Black mothers	White mothers
			(n = 222)	(n = 112)	(n = 110)
	Category	Variable	Mean (s.d.) or No. (%)	Mean (s.d.) or No. (%)	Mean (s.d.) or No. (%)
Maternal	Sociodemographics	Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin, No. (%) yes	8 (3.6)	3 (2.7)	5 (4.6)
		Age, years	39.31 (1.14)	39.37 (1.09)	39.25 (1.20)
		Education, No. (%) less than college degree	138 (62%)*	87 (78%)	51 (46%)
		Annual household income, No. (%) < $ 60 000	90 (43%)*	63 (60%)	27 (25%)
	Adolescence stressors	Total count of stressors during adolescence	14.81 (8.29)	15.64 (8.83)	13.98 (7.65)
	Pregnancy stressors	Total count of stressors during pregnancy	1.87 (2.07)*	2.43 (2.25)	1.31 (1.72)
		Total count of social stressors during pregnancy	1.28 (1.52)*	1.72 (1.68)	0.85 (1.22)
		Total count of financial stressors during pregnancy	0.59 (0.86)*	0.72 (0.92)	0.46 (0.78)
	Lifespan stressors	Total count of stressors across the lifespan	26.89 (15.68)	27.90 (16.40)	25.80 (14.89)
	Cellular aging marker	TL (T/S ratio)	1.19 (0.24)*	1.24 (0.24)	1.13 (0.22)
Child	Sociodemographics	Age, years	8.12 (3.98)	8.41 (4.05)	7.83 (3.91)
		Gender, No. (%) female	119 (54%)	58 (52%)	61 (56%)
	Cellular aging marker	TL (T/S ratio)	1.57 (0.44)	1.60 (0.47)	1.53 (0.39)

^*Indicates significant race differences (p < 0.05).