Table 1.

Characteristics of the samples by ethnicity. Means ± standard deviations, unless otherwise noted.

	Postal Sample		Monitored Sample
	Japanese Americans	European Americans	Japanese Americans	European Americans
N (#)	181	212	46	88
Age (Mean (std. dev))	50.3 ± 2.9	50.3 ± 2.6	50.6 ± 3.1	51.0 ± 2.9
Menopausal Status (%)			*
Pre	46.0	53.5	41.3	19.8
Peri	13.1	21.5	28.3	48.8
Post	40.9	34.9	30.4	31.4
Stature (cm)	155.9 ± 5.4 ***	163.8 ± 7.6	157.0 ± 5.0 ***	163.7 ± 8.2
Weight (kg)	61.3 ± 13.5 ***	71.8 ± 18.8	59.9 ± 14.8 ***	71.8 ± 15.8
BMI (kg/m2)	25.2 ± 5.2 **	26.8 ± 6.4	23.6 ± 3.9 ***	26.8 ± 5.4
Married (%)	79.6 **	66.8	88.9 *	63.2
With Children (%)	83.3	84.9	88.9	83.0
Income (%)	***		***
< $30,000	8.5	27.1	5.7	40.0
$30,000 - $79,999	55.3	54.7	31.4	47.5
≥ $80,000	36.2	18.2	62.9	12.5
Financial Comfort (%)	**		**
Struggling	11.8	22.6	6.5	34.5
OK	43.3	44.3	47.8	40.2
Comfortable	43.8	30.7	45.7	21.8
Well Off	1.1	2.4	0.0	3.4
Education Level (%)	***
Some high school	0.0	1.8	0.0	3.4
High school grad.	2.5	20.7	2.2	12.5
Some college	11.8	24.4	17.4	26.1
Two year degree	21.7	12.8	17.4	17.0
Four year degree	39.1	17.1	23.9	17.0
Some post graduate	6.8	7.3	13.0	6.8
Graduate degree	18.0	15.9	26.1	17.0
Smokers, currently (%)	7.2 **	17.1	2.2	12.5
Drink alcohol, currently (%)	39.0 ***	57.1	46.7	59.1
Grew up in Hawaii (%)	95.0 ***	37.3	92.7 ***	20.5
Frequency of eating soy, currently (%)	**
Never	0.0	8.6	0.0	5.9
At times	16.7	58.6	50.0	58.8
Frequently	33.3	25.0	43.2	28.2
Every day	50.0	7.8	6.8	7.1

^*Ethnic comparisons: p < 0.05,

^**Ethnic comparisons: p < 0.01,

^***Ethnic comparisons: p < 0.001