. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 11.

Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2010 May 24;72(7):613–619. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181e2cca5

Table 2.

Selected Characteristics (Percent or Mean) of Study Participants by Levels of Depressive Symptoms

Characteristic	Low Depressive Symptoms n=331	High Depressive Symptoms n=103	P-value¹
GENDER			0.003
Male	49.98	28.14
Female	50.02	71.86
Age	42.73(16.41)	44.86(15.80)	0.39
HEALTH CONDITIONS
Systolic blood pressure	122.71(21.94)	123.58(21.11)	0.79
Cardiovascular condition	14.44	30.98	0.003
Inflammatory condition	30.25	41.96	0.13
HEALTH BEHAVIORS
Body Mass Index			0.97
Normal	30.46	30.77
Overweight	37.53	35.75
Obese	32.00	33.48
Smoking			0.13
never smoked	58.67	57.13
past smoker	18.87	10.10
current smoker	22.46	32.77

Standard deviation in parentheses.

P-values reflect differences across categories as derived from F-tests for continuous variables, and chi-square tests for categorical variables