Table 3.

Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) for baseline covariates by baseline level of wine consumption among high-wine consumption and low-wine consumption moderate drinkers. Results of F and chi-square tests are shown in the last column (n = 457)

Covariate	High wine consumption M (SD)	Low wine consumption M (SD)	Overall testb
Age, in years	60.99 (3.29)	61.67 (3.06)	F = 5.06*
Gender, 0 = female, 1 = male	0.47 (0.50)	0.67 (0.47)	χ2 = 18.15**
Socioeconomic statusa	0.24 (0.75)	−0.19 (0.87)	F = 29.73**
Health problems	1.35 (1.61)	2.35 (2.51)	F = 22.37**
Tobacco smoking, 0 = no, 1 = yes	0.08 (0.27)	0.37 (0.48)	χ2 = 47.70**
Physical activity	1.38 (1.18)	1.19 (1.16)	F = 2.90†

^aStandardized scale;

^bdf = 1,455 for F;

df = 1 for chi-square.

^†p = .09;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01.