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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2011 Jan 19;33(2):107–115. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.11.011

Table 1.

Sample Characteristics

Non-Hispanic
Whites
(N = 20161)		 African
Americans
(N = 6587)		 Hispanics
(N = 6359)		 American
Indians/Alaska
Natives (N = 578)		 Asians/Pacific
Islanders (N = 968)		 Chi-square (df), p
% SE % SE % SE % SE % SE
Sex 8.49 (4) <0.0001
  Male 48.13 0.43 43.70 0.79 50.86 0.83 45.17 2.31 48.76 2.10
  Female 51.87 0.43 56.30 0.79 49.14 0.83 54.83 2.31 51.24 2.10
Age, y (Mean, SD) 49.90 0.19 45.42 0.28 41.38 0.43 48.47 0.72 44.53 0.93 121.63 (65)
<0.0001*
Marital status 12.79 (8) <0.0001
  Married/living with someone 66.51 0.42 42.84 0.84 65.20 1.31 61.94 2.20 69.98 1.90
  Widowed, separated or
divorced		 18.96 0.33 25.43 0.72 14.40 0.81 23.65 1.88 9.98 1.09
  Never Married 14.54 0.38 31.73 0.88 20.41 0.92 14.41 1.67 20.04 1.77
Education 14.81 (8) <0.0001
  Less than high school 10.06 0.32 17.61 0.73 34.75 1.55 19.52 2.20 11.45 2.07
  High school 24.51 0.51 26.44 0.84 20.26 0.75 22.52 2.21 15.78 1.52
  Some college or higher 65.43 0.67 55.95 1.15 44.99 1.41 57.96 2.75 72.77 2.89
Family income, $ 8.57 (12) <0.0001
  1-19,999 16.75 0.45 31.97 1.06 25.19 1.21 27.31 2.72 15.89 1.23
  20,000-34,999 17.46 0.40 22.77 0.65 24.75 0.77 22.34 1.75 14.91 1.58
  35,000-69,999 32.84 0.46 28.16 0.76 32.44 1.00 29.61 2.47 32.66 1.94
  70,000 + 32.95 0.89 17.09 0.94 17.62 0.92 20.74 2.09 36.54 2.05
BMI (Mean, SD) 27.34 0.05 29.29 0.11 28.30 0.14 28.63 0.31 24.64 0.21 160.87 (65)
<0.0001*
BMI 8.60 (12) <0.0001
  Underweight 2.31 0.14 1.94 0.25 1.73 0.28 2.95 0.72 3.22 0.57
  Normal 35.43 0.43 25.22 0.75 27.40 0.94 29.12 2.31 55.87 2.12
  Overweight 35.90 0.40 33.27 0.81 39.86 0.91 30.33 2.12 31.00 1.73
  Obese 26.36 0.40 39.57 0.96 31.01 1.08 37.60 2.37 9.92 1.28
Physician confirmed medical conditions
  Diabetes 7.61 0.20 11.52 0.45 8.54 0.54 12.33 1.58 5.86 1.20 12.30 (4) <0.0001
  Cardiovascular disease (CVD) 10.72 0.27 9.00 0.45 6.72 0.49 13.22 1.66 5.30 1.02 10.83 (4) <0.0001
  High Cholesterol 22.33 0.35 16.56 0.58 14.31 0.72 22.30 1.90 18.16 1.64 15.01 (4) <0.0001
  Hypertension 25.60 0.42 32.04 0.86 15.95 0.79 26.56 2.57 18.81 1.85 16.92 (4) <0.0001
  Liver disease 0.90 0.08 0.92 0.15 0.70 0.13 1.36 0.51 0.54 0.22 1.06 (4) 0.3832
  Gastritis or stomach ulcer 6.35 0.21 6.13 0.38 7.26 0.42 9.92 1.69 4.32 0.74 3.66 (4) 0.0094
  HIV/AIDS 0.16 0.03 0.73 0.10 0.30 0.11 0.30 0.22 0.00 0.00 9.32 (4) <0.0001
  Sexually transmitted disease 0.57 0.07 0.49 0.10 0.49 0.15 0.91 0.38 0.23 0.14 1.16 (4) 0.3367
  Arthritis 23.90 0.39 21.18 0.80 11.83 0.66 26.63 2.26 11.44 1.33 13.72 (4) <0.0001
Past year psychiatric disorders
  Any disorder 43.61 0.51 45.96 0.97 40.66 1.32 56.30 2.67 28.33 1.81 12.58 (4) <0.0001
  Any substance use disorder 22.63 0.42 19.39 0.89 15.51 0.85 34.15 2.42 10.43 1.21 15.87 (4) <0.0001
  Any mood disorder 9.54 0.27 10.05 0.50 9.74 0.57 14.86 1.69 6.88 1.13 3.57 (4) 0.0108
  Any anxiety disorder 16.66 0.34 16.98 0.66 14.82 0.81 19.92 1.75 10.07 1.21 5.06 (4) 0.0013
Any lifetime personality disorder 20.41 0.42 27.98 0.90 22.39 0.96 32.62 2.39 15.21 1.56 11.61 (4) <0.0001
Lifetime use of psychotropic
medications		 19.57 0.35 12.05 0.60 12.18 0.81 24.70 1.89 7.55 0.92 19.45 (4) <0.0001
*

Wald F-test