Table 1. Means and Standard Deviations for African Americans and Whites.
African American n = 50 |
White n = 100 |
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M | SD | M | SD | |
Age | 56.70 | 11.61 | 56.55 | 11.64 |
Gender | .42 | .50 | .42 | .50 |
Socioeconomic Status | 4.89 | 1.51 | 4.90 | 1.50 |
Smoker | .16 | .37 | .14 | .35 |
Cort. Medication | .10 | .30 | .07 | .26 |
Other Medication | .20 | .40 | .23 | .42 |
Discrimination | 1.94 | .62 | 1.35 | .49 |
Log (Waking Cortisol) | 2.47 | .46 | 2.67 | .52 |
Log (30min Post-waking Cortisol) | 2.79 | .52 | 2.95 | .54 |
Log (Before Lunch Cortisol) | 2.04 | .45 | 1.94 | .50 |
Log (Bedtime Cortisol) | 1.60 | .63 | 1.17 | .53 |
Note. Gender (female=0; male=1); Smoker (0=non-smoker; 1=smoker); Cort. Medication (0=no corticosteroid medication use; 1=corticosteroid medication use); Other Medication (0=no other medication use; 1=other medication use). Means for dichotomous variables can be interpreted as proportions (e.g., 42 percent male). Original units for cortisol are nmol/liter. A log transformed cortisol value (x) can be converted back to the original scale using the following formula: ex − 1.