Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics, by Quartile of CMV IgG Titers, of Subjects in the SALSA Study (N = 1,468), California, 1998–2008

Characteristic	Quartile								P Value
	1		2		3		4
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
All-cause mortality (n = 1,468)	76	21.17	76	21.17	86	23.96	121	33.70	0.0002
CVD mortality (n = 1,329)a	48	21.82	49	22.27	53	24.09	70	31.82	0.0202
Age, years (n = 1,468)									<0.0001
<69.5	218	29.70	180	24.52	189	25.75	147	20.03
≥69.5	149	20.30	187	25.48	178	24.25	220	29.97
Gender (n = 1,468)									<0.0001
Male	210	35.78	153	26.06	120	20.44	104	17.72
Female	157	17.82	214	24.29	247	28.04	263	29.85
Education (n = 1,468)									0.0076
<High school	237	23.08	247	24.05	272	26.48	271	26.39
≥High school	130	29.48	120	27.21	95	21.54	96	21.77
Nativity (n = 1,468)									0.349
US born	186	25.00	200	26.88	177	23.79	181	24.33
Foreign born	181	25.00	167	23.07	190	26.24	186	25.69
Smoking status (n = 1,465)									0.4875
Never	166	24.09	164	23.80	178	25.83	181	26.27
Ever	200	25.77	203	26.16	187	24.10	186	23.97
Hypertension (n = 1,455)									0.6628
Yes	236	24.16	253	25.90	246	25.18	242	24.77
No	126	26.36	112	23.43	117	24.48	123	25.73
Median LDL cholesterol (n = 1,458)									0.9484
Below	175	24.31	181	25.14	181	25.14	183	25.42
Above	189	25.61	185	25.07	181	24.53	183	24.80
Median HDL cholesterol (n = 1,463)									0.5958
Below	174	24.89	182	26.04	164	23.46	179	25.61
Above	191	25.00	184	24.08	201	26.31	188	24.61
Comorbidity indexb (n = 1,468)									0.899
0	180	25.42	180	25.42	171	24.15	177	25.00
≥1	187	24.61	187	24.61	196	25.79	190	25.00
Median log(TNF) (n = 1,468)									0.0036
Below	202	27.52	199	27.11	173	23.57	160	21.80
Above	165	22.48	168	22.89	194	26.43	207	28.20
Median log(IL-6) (n = 1,468)									<0.0001
Below	216	29.47	186	25.38	179	24.42	152	20.74
Above	151	20.54	181	24.63	188	25.58	215	29.25
Median log(CRP) (n = 1,468)									0.0008
Below	203	27.81	189	25.89	188	25.75	150	20.55
Above	164	22.22	178	24.12	179	24.25	217	29.40

Abbreviations: CMV, cytomegalovirus; CRP, C-reactive protein; CVD, cardiovascular disease; HDL, high density lipoprotein; IgG, immunoglobulin G; IL-6, interleukin 6; LDL, low density lipoprotein; SALSA, Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging; TNF, tumor necrosis factor.

^aExcludes non-CVD deaths.

^bIncludes myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, stroke, dementia, liver/renal disease, diabetes, malignancy, and leukemia or lymphoma.