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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Ethn Dis. 2011 Winter;21(1):85–90.

Table 1.

Characteristics of Health and Retirement Study participants by history of living in public housing

Reported living in subsidized housing (1995–2006)
Yes n=567 No n=15,615
Age, years ± SD 73.3 ± 10.3 67.4 ± 10.8
Ethnicity %
    Black, Non-Latino 38.4 13.0
    Latino 16.2   8.9
    White, Non-Latino 45.5 78.1
Women 76.6 59.2
Education ≤high school 83.9 55.7
Median net worth, mean $500 $218,000
Self-rated health poor/fair 57.3 26.9
Self-reported conditions
    Hypertension 75.2 56.7
    Diabetes 32.6 19.4
    Heart conditions 37.5 25.1
    Stroke 14.4   7.8
    Cancer 16.2 14.8
    Arthritis 78.5 60.9
    Psychiatric problems 32.8 17.0
    Incontinence 25.7 21.1
    Fallen in past 2 years 38.7 31.9