Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the study respondents
| Total (n) | 1,149 |
| Age, mean (SD) | 50.6 (15.6) |
| Gender, n (%) | |
| Male | 231 (15.9) |
| Female | 1,214 (83.8) |
| Prefer not to answer | 4 (0.3) |
| Employment status | |
| Employed | 901 (62.2) |
| Unemployed | 179 (12.4) |
| Retired | 327 (22.6) |
| Prefer not to answer | 41 (2.8) |
| Race | |
| Caucasian | 1,110 (76.6) |
| African American | 189 (13.0) |
| Asian | 64 (4.4) |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 5 (0.4) |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 8 (0.6) |
| Other | 73 (5.0) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Hispanic/Latino | 139 (9.6) |
| Not Hispanic/Latino | 1,310 (90.4) |
| AA subtype | |
| Patchy AA | 540 (37.3) |
| AT | 185 (12.8) |
| AU | 724 (50.0) |
| Current active AA | 1,325 (91.4) |
| Years with AA, mean (SD) | 17.7 (15.8) |