Table 1.

Descriptive statistics by poverty status and educational attainment

	In or near poverty (1356)	Not in poverty (4953)	p-value	Less than high school (1848)	High school (1498)	Some college (1644)	College or more (1319)	p-value
High CRP (%)	41.6	30.4	<0.0001	37.5	33.7	34.2	24.8	<0.0001
Mean CRP (mg/L)*	3.1 (0.08)	2.5 (0.04)	<0.0001	3.0 (0.09)	2.7 (0.05)	2.7 (0.07)	2.2 (0.06)	<0.0001
Age (years)*	58.4 (0.6)	56.7 (0.3)	0.008	61.7 (0.6)	58.1 (0.6)	55.1 (0.4)	54.8 (0.5)	<0.0001
Gender (% male)	44.4	51.3	0.0004	50.2	48.9	47.5	54.6	0.001
Race (%)			<0.0001					<0.0001
Black	15.8	8		16.8	7.9	9.1	5.5
Hispanic	19.5	6.3		22	6.6	6.4	3.1
White	64.7	85.7		61.2	85.5	84.5	91.3
Chronic conditions (%)	70.6	58.4	<0.0001	73.8	65.3	56.7	54.4	<0.0001
Obese (%)	34.9	31.6	0.13	34	33.8	33.7	27.7	0.005
Vigorous exercise (%)	15.5	31.3	<0.0001	11.7	20.1	30.7	46	<0.0001
Low dietary adherence (%)	59.1	58.3	0.7	60.1	61.4	58.3	54.7	0.02
Heavy alcohol use (%)	20.4	16.8	0.02	19	19.9	19.1	12.1	<0.0001
Current smoker (%)	32.8	17.7	<0.0001	29	23.4	21.6	9.1	<0.0001

^*Values in parentheses are standard errors