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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eat Behav. 2010 Sep 21;12(1):1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2010.08.008

Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics by Obesity and Ethnic Racial groups.

Non-Latino White Latino Asian African
American
Afro-Caribbean
N=4112 N=2529 N=2079 N=3336 N=1370
BMI<30
%
BMI≥30
%
BMI<30
%
BMI≥30
%
BMI<30
%
BMI≥30
%
BMI<30
%
BMI≥30
%
BMI<30
%
BMI≥30
%
Gender
     Men 46.7 49.8 51.7 52.7 47.9 46.2 49.1 37.0 54.9 38.4
53.3 50.2 48.3 47.3 52.1 53.8 50.9 63.0* 45.1 61.6*
Women
Age
     18–34 29.6 21.0 52.1 41.8 39.6 37.4 39.3 30.9 39.7 40.4
     35–49 29.5 33.3 27.6 36.0 31.8 37.7 32.0 37.5 30.4 40.1
     50–64 20.4 31.3 12.5 15.2 18.0 17.3 17.3 21.0 18.7 14.3
     65+ 20.5 14.4 7.8 7.0 10.6 7.7 11.4 10.7 11.2 5.2
Below
Poverty
Level
     No 91.0 91.2 72.2 75.7 81.8 88.2 76.5 76.0 85.0 87.0
     Yes 9.1 8.8 27.8 24.4 18.2 11.8 23.5 24.0 15.0 13.0
Household
Income
     − 13.0 12.0 28.4 24.6 19.1 11.5 25.2 24.1 14.0 12.8
14,999
     15− 20.0 19.9 28.3 30.0 13.3 10.7 33.5 33.2 34.2 32.6
34,999
     35− 35.3 38.9 26.1 32.2 28.0 32.7 29.8 34.7 36.3 37.5
74,999
     75+ 32.0 29.3 17.2 13.5 40.0 45.1 11.5 8.1 15.5 17.2
Current
Smoker
     No 74.0 77.4 79.9 81.1 86.0 91.3 69.9 76.3** 85.5 86.6
     Yes 26.1 22.7 20.1 18.9 14.0 8.7 30.1 23.7 14.5 13.4
Number of
Chronic
Conditions
     0 48.1 33.5 68 49.6 63.3 43 50.9 33.0 54.2 36
     1 26.4 29 20.2 27.1 23.9 33.9 26.6 29.2 28.1 37.3
     2+ 25.5 37.5** 11.8 23.3** 12.8 23.1** 22.5 37.9** 17.7 26.7
Any 12
month
Depressive
Disorder
     No 91.6 89.7 91.2 91.1 95.1 94.6 93.5 92.3 92.5 89.1
     Yes 8.42 10.3* 8.9 8.9 4.9 5.4 6.5 7.7 7.5 10.9
Any 12mo
Anxiety
Disorder
     No 86.6 85.3 91.3 88.6 93.7 92.6 90.7 86.1 91.6 83.5
     Yes 13.4 14.7 8.7 11.4 6.3 7.4 9.3 14* 8.4 16.5
Any 12 mo
Substance
Disorder
     No 96 97.4 97 97.6 98.7 98.6 96.2 98.4 95.8 99.3
     Yes 4.1 2.6 3.1 3.1 2.4 1.4 3.8 1.6 4.2 .75
Any
Disorder
     No 80.3 78.8 84.3 84.2 90.1 91.1 84.7 81.9 86.6 75.1
     Yes 19.7 21.2 15.8 15.8 9.9 8.9 15.3 18.1 13.4 25
WHO-DAS
Disability
Assessment
     Days
.23 .33 .27 .35 .11 .28 .64 .98 1.3 .34
out-mental
reason
.91 1.1 .54 1.1* .63 .56 1.0 2.3** 2.6 1.6
Cognition 4.2 8.3** 1.6 5.2** 1.2 2.2 3.7 6.2** 2.5 3.2
Mobility
     Self-
care
.87 1.4 .37 1.8** .34 .41 .81 1.2 1.3 .65
.53 .79 .33 .66 .45 .19 .82 1.2 1.4 .70
Social
functioning
     Role
functioning
9.3 13.5** 6.2 12.0** 5.7 8.0 14.3 17.9** 10.1 14.5
*

p<.05

**

p<.01