Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of Participants with Incident Hospitalized Heart Failure, by Medicaid Status and nINC: The ARIC study, 1987–2004.

	Medicaid Recipient				Median Household Income (nINC)
	Yes		No		Low		Medium		High
	N=135		N=1,207		N=553		N=454		N=335
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Median Household Income (USD), mean	17,897		29,456		16,519		31,799		42,979
Gender
Female	97	71.9	513	42.5	309	55.9	173	38.1	128	38.2
Male	38	28.1	694	57.5	244	44.1	281	61.9	207	61.8
Race/Study Community
Black/Forsyth	5	3.7	40	3.3	26	4.7	17	3.7	2	0.6
Black/Jackson	97	71.9	300	24.8	369	66.7	6	1.3	22	6.6
White/Forsyth County	9	6.6	264	21.9	42	7.6	141	31.1	90	26.9
White/Washington County	20	14.8	363	30.1	103	18.6	232	51.1	48	14.3
White/Minneapolis	4	3.0	240	19.9	13	2.4	58	12.8	173	51.6
Hypertensive*
Yes	112	66.3	598	51.0	349	63.1	200	44.1	161	48.1
No	57	33.7	564	48.1	200	36.2	251	55.3	170	50.8
Missing	-	-	11	0.9	4	0.7	3	0.7	4	1.1
Body Mass Index (BMI)†
Obese	75	55.6	503	41.7	273	49.4	172	37.9	133	39.7
Overweight	37	27.4	447	37.0	186	33.6	173	38.1	125	37.3
Normal	23	17.0	255	21.1	93	16.8	109	24.0	76	22.7
Missing	-	-	2	0.2	1	0.2	-	-	1	0.3
Current Drinker
Yes	32	23.7	589	48.8	168	30.4	237	52.2	216	64.5
No	103	76.3	618	51.2	385	69.6	217	47.8	119	35.5
Current Smoker
Yes	56	41.5	417	34.5	204	36.9	161	35.5	108	32.2
No	79	58.5	790	65.5	349	63.1	293	64.5	227	67.8
Educational Attainment (years)
Advanced (17–21)	12	8.9	307	25.4	79	14.3	106	23.4	134	40.0
Intermediate (12–16)	26	19.3	472	39.1	169	30.6	190	41.9	139	41.5
Basic (≤11)	96	71.1	425	35.2	302	54.6	157	34.5	62	18.5
Missing	1	0.7	3	0.3	3	0.5	1	0.2	-	-

^*Systolic blood pressure ≥140mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90mmHg, or blood pressure medication in the last two weeks.

^†Normal BMI: <25kg/m²; overweight: 25–<30kg/m²; and obese: ≥30kg/m²