Table 2. Ideal Cardiovascular Health (ICH) Scores and Categorizations by Race and Gender.
| Overall | Black participants | P value, Black men vs Black women | White participants | P value, White men vs White women | P values | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Men | Women | Overall | Men | Women | Overall Black vs White participants | Black men vs White men | Black women vs White women | ||||
| ICH total score, mean (SD) | 7.4 (2.1) | 6.7 (2.0) | 7.1 (2.0) | 6.6 (1.9) | <.001 | 7.7 (2.1) | 7.7 (2.0) | 7.7 (2.1) | .55 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| ICH scores overall and by component, No. (%)a | ||||||||||||
| Overall | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 629 (8.2) | 278 (13.4) | 68 (10.6) | 210 (14.7) | <.001 | 351 (6.2) | 159 (5.9) | 192 (6.5) | .07 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Intermediate | 5773 (74.8) | 1621 (78.2) | 500 (77.8) | 1121 (78.3) | 4152 (73.5) | 2014 (75.0) | 2138 (72.3) | |||||
| Ideal | 1318 (17.1) | 175 (8.4) | 75 (11.7) | 100 (7.0) | 1143 (20.2) | 514 (19.1) | 629 (21.3) | |||||
| Cigarette smoking | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 513 (6.7) | 216 (10.4) | 84 (13.1) | 132 (9.2) | .03 | 297 (5.3) | 122 (4.5) | 175 (5.9) | .054 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Intermediate | 133 (1.7) | 48 (2.3) | 14 (2.2) | 34 (2.4) | 85 (1.5) | 44 (1.6) | 41 (1.4) | |||||
| Ideal | 7074 (91.6) | 1810 (87.3) | 545 (84.8) | 1265 (88.4) | 5264 (93.2) | 2521 (93.8) | 2743 (92.7) | |||||
| Physical activity | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 2927 (38.3) | 843 (41.1) | 196 (30.9) | 647 (45.7) | <.001 | 2084 (37.3) | 833 (31.3) | 1251 (42.8) | <.001 | <.001 | .001 | .002 |
| Intermediate | 2731 (35.8) | 779 (38.0) | 275 (43.4) | 504 (35.6) | 1952 (35.0) | 964 (36.3) | 988 (33.8) | |||||
| Ideal | 1976 (25.9) | 429 (20.9) | 163 (25.7) | 266 (18.8) | 1547 (27.7) | 861 (32.4) | 686 (23.5) | |||||
| Total cholesterol | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 584 (7.9) | 132 (6.8) | 22 (3.6) | 110 (8.3) | <.001 | 452 (8.3) | 75 (2.9) | 377 (13.2) | <.001 | .10 | .38 | <.001 |
| Intermediate | 4356 (58.8) | 1144 (58.9) | 339 (55.2) | 805 (60.6) | 3212 (58.7) | 1516 (57.8) | 1696 (59.5) | |||||
| Ideal | 2475 (33.4) | 666 (34.3) | 253 (41.2) | 413 (31.1) | 1809 (33.1) | 1030 (39.3) | 779 (27.3) | |||||
| Glucose | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 656 (10.0) | 228 (13.4) | 73 (13.6) | 155 (13.4) | .97 | 428 (8.8) | 242 (10.5) | 186 (7.3) | <.001 | <.001 | .08 | <.001 |
| Intermediate | 1831 (28.0) | 551 (32.4) | 176 (32.7) | 375 (32.3) | 1280 (26.4) | 725 (31.6) | 555 (21.8) | |||||
| Ideal | 4057 (62.0) | 920 (54.2) | 289 (53.7) | 631 (54.4) | 3137 (64.8) | 1331 (57.9) | 1806 (70.9) | |||||
| BMI | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 2709 (35.3) | 1019 (49.5) | 233 (36.5) | 786 (55.4) | <.001 | 1690 (30.0) | 778 (29.0) | 912 (31.0) | <.001 | <.001 | .001 | <.001 |
| Intermediate | 2864 (37.3) | 665 (32.3) | 250 (39.2) | 415 (29.2) | 2199 (39.1) | 1193 (44.5) | 1006 (34.2) | |||||
| Ideal | 2111 (27.5) | 374 (18.2) | 155 (24.3) | 219 (15.4) | 1737 (30.9) | 709 (26.5) | 1028 (34.9) | |||||
| Blood pressure | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 1023 (13.3) | 335 (16.2) | 103 (16.1) | 232 (16.2) | .15 | 688 (12.2) | 350 (13.0) | 338 (11.5) | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Intermediate | 5169 (67.1) | 1528 (73.8) | 461 (71.9) | 1067 (74.6) | 3641 (64.6) | 1796 (66.9) | 1845 (62.5) | |||||
| Ideal | 1517 (19.7) | 209 (10.1) | 77 (12.0) | 132 (9.2) | 1308 (23.2) | 538 (20.0) | 770 (26.1) | |||||
| Diet | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 5787 (75.0) | 1627 (78.5) | 556 (86.5) | 1071 (74.8) | <.001 | 4160 (73.7) | 2175 (91.0) | 1985 (67.1) | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Intermediate | 1918 (24.8) | 444 (21.4) | 87 (13.5) | 357 (25.0) | 1474 (26.1) | 507 (18.9) | 967 (32.7) | |||||
| Ideal | 15 (0.2) | 3 (0.1) | 0 (0) | 3 (0.2) | 12 (0.2) | 5 (0.2) | 7 (0.2) | |||||
Abbreviation: BMI, body mass index (measured as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared).
a
ICH categories: poor, scores 0 to 4; intermediate, 5 to 9; and ideal, 10 to 14, with higher scores indicating closer to ideal.