Table 3.

Ratio of Measured Number of High-Risk Biological Risk Factors for the Poor to the Nonpoor

Ages (y)	NHANES 1999–2004	NHANES III 1988–1994
20–29	1.07	1.37a
30–39	1.32a	1.38a
40–49	1.32a	1.32a
50–59	1.38a	1.26a
60–69	1.23a	1.20a
70–79	1.08	1.15a
80+	1.06	1.02
N	12,752	14,912

Notes: NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

^aSignificant difference at the .05 level in the numbers used to compute the ratio.