Table 3.
Baseline characteristics by caller enrollment
Variables | Enrolled (n = 2032) | Declined (n = 2877) | P* |
% white | 76.7 | 73.1 | <.001 |
% women | 56.7 | 52.9 | <.001 |
% with some college education | 25.2 | 23.4 | <.001 |
No. of cigarettes smoked per day (±SD) | 20.1 (±11.1) | 18.3 (±14.5) | <.001 |
No. of years smoking cigarettes (±SD) | 26.0 (±14.3) | 23.1 (±14.8) | <.001 |
Age, y (±SD) | 46.7 (±13.7) | 46.2 (±14.4) | .29 |
Variables were analyzed with χ2 tests for categorical variables and a general linear model for continuous variables. All statistical tests were two-sided.