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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Affect Disord. 2010 Mar 12;125(1-3):241–248. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.02.112

Table 1.

Sample characteristics by cardiovascular disease status

No CVD
N=2651
CVD
N=156
p*
Sociodemographic variables
Age, years, mean (SD) 41.1 (12.9) 54.1 (7.8) <.001
Women, % 67.7 45.5 <.001
Years of education, mean (SD) 12.2 (3.3) 11.0 (3.2) <.001
Lifestyle variables
Smoking status .001
  Never, % 28.4 18.6
  Former, % 32.3 46.2
  Current, % 39.3 35.3
Alcohol intake .05
  < 1 drink a week, % 32.2 37.8
  1–14 drinks a week, % 52.1 42.3
  > 14 drinks a week, % 15.7 19.9
Physical activity (in MET-minutes/week), mean (SD) 3720 (3046) 3423 (3198) .24
Body mass index, mean (SD) 25.4 (5.0) 28.6 (4.8) <.001
Depression and Anxiety variables
Depressive disorder .14
  No depressive disorder, % 30.6 23.7
  Remitted depressive disorder, % 24.4 29.5
  Current (in past year) depressive disorder, % 45.0 46.8
Anxiety disorder .007
  No anxiety disorder, % 37.9 26.3
  Remitted anxiety disorder, % 14.6 14.1
  Current (in past year) anxiety disorder, % 47.5 59.6
Depressive and/or anxiety disorder .03
  No depressive or anxiety disorder 17.8 12.2
  Remitted depressive or anxiety disorder 19.4 19.2
  Current depressive disorder only 15.2   9.0
  Current anxiety disorder only 17.7 21.8
  Current depressive and anxiety disorder 29.8 37.8
*

Based on independent t-test for continuous variables and chi-square statistics for dichotomous and categorical variables.