Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of participants with stroke and depressed mood assessed in the Northern Manhattan Stroke Study (n = 340)

		N or mean	Early depressed mood present , N (proportion) or mean (standard deviation) n = 139	p-value for difference
Age		68.8	68.0 (13.3)	0.3
Race Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic White	70	34 (48.6)	reference
	Non-Hispanic Black	81	22 (27.2)	0.007
	Hispanic	182	83 (45.6)	0.7
Women		192	84 (43.8)	0.2
Men		148	55 (37.2)
Less than a high school education		239	97 (40.6)	0.8
Greater than a high school education		98	41 (41.8)
Not married/widowed		222	98 (44.1)	0.09
Married		116	40 (34.5)
Diabetes Mellitus		104	47 (45.2)	0.3
No diabetes mellitus		236	92 (39.0)
Physically inactive		191	90 (47.1)	0.006
Physically active		148	48 (32.4)
Less than 3 friends		77	37 (48.1)	0.1
Three or more friends		263	102 (38.8)
Medicaid or no insurance		176	78 (44.3)	0.2
Private insurance or medicare		164	61 (37.2)
Cardiac disease*		113	41 (36.3)	0.2
No cardiac disease		227	98 (43.2)
Stroke severity**	Mild	180	77 (42.8)	reference
	Moderate	116	36 (31.0)	0.04
	Severe	41	25 (61.0)	0.04

^*History of coronary artery disease or prior myocardial infarction.

^**Mild: NIHSS < 6; Moderate: NIHSS 6–13; Severe: NIHSS ≥ 14