Table 5.

Ethnic-specific gradients in inflammation, metabolic risk and cardiovascular subscales by poverty income ratio, based on data for adults aged 20 or more years from the National Health and Nutrition Survey, 1988–1994^*

	Inflammation		Metabolic Risk		Cardiovascular Risk
	0	1+	0	1+	0	1+
Whites – N’s	4,413	1,385	2,189	3,877	4,224	1,834
	%	%	%	%	%	%
<1.0	73.4	26.6	24.5	75.5	75.0	25.0
1.0–1.99	76.5	23.5	26.3	73.7	75.5	24.5
2.0–2.99	80.7	19.3	28.4	71.7	76.5	23.6
3.0–3.99	81.9	18.1	28.1	72.0	78.4	21.6
4.0–4.99	80.1	19.9	32.1	67.9	78.7	21.3
>=5.0	81.0	19.0	35.2	64.9	80.1	19.9
P-Value	0.02		<0.0001		0.004
Blacks – N’s	2,411	1,154	1,870	1,963	2,641	1,186
	%	%	%	%	%	%
<1.0	62.2	37.8	29.6	70.5	61.9	38.1
1.0–1.99	66.3	33.7	32.7	67.3	65.7	34.4
2.0–2.99	68.2	31.8	29.8	70.2	67.0	33.0
3.0–3.99	66.4	33.6	36.3	63.7	67.7	32.3
4.0–4.99	71.2	28.8	33.2	66.8	75.7	24.4
>=5.0	68.0	32.0	36.5	63.5	74.1	25.9
P-Value	0.03		0.02		<0.0001
Mexican-Americans – N’s	2,716	836	1,368	2,332	2,874	818
	%	%	%	%	%	%
<1.0	71.9	28.1	15.1	84.9	76.2	23.8
1.0–1.99	74.7	25.4	18.6	81.5	76.8	23.2
2.0–2.99	78.0	22.1	19.6	80.4	72.1	27.9
3.0–3.99	79.0	21.0	17.6	82.4	70.8	29.2
4.0–4.99	76.4	23.6	19.9	80.1	72.2	27.8
>=5.0	83.5	16.5	23.6	76.4	76.0	24.0
P-Value	0.02		0.005		0.1
Others – N’s	423	118	242	323	441	124
	%	%	%	%	%	%
<1.0	73.2	26.8	19.2	80.8	71.9	28.2
1.0–1.99	72.4	27.6	29.4	70.6	73.7	26.4
2.0–2.99	82.0	18.0	26.0	74.0	80.1	19.9
3.0–3.99	78.9	21.1	29.1	70.9	81.1	18.9
4.0–4.99	81.2	18.8	33.8	66.3	87.3	12.7
>=5.0	89.1	10.9	49.0	51.0	97.0	3.0
P-Value	0.1		0.04		<0.0001

^*All values are weighted by NHANES mobile examination center weight: WTPFEX6 and age standardized to the 2000 US Census population. P-values for trend were determined based on regression models that considered poverty as an ordinal variable in the model.