Table 1.
Descriptive Data for Demographic and Health Characteristics (Total = 747)
| Middle-age group: < 60 years (n = 405)
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Old-age group: ≥ 60 years (n = 342)
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| CVDRFs ≤ 1 (n = 83) | CVDRFs = 2 (n = 121) | CVDRFs ≥ 3 (n = 201) | F or X2 | CVDRFs ≤ 1 (n = 110) | CVDRFs = 2 (n = 112) | CVDRFs ≥ 3 (n = 120) | F or X2 | |
| Age, mean (SD) | 49.47 (5.96) | 50.04 (5.40) | 50.70 (5.93) | 1.45 | 69.68 (6.33) d | 67.56 (6.52) e | 68.33 (6.33) d, e | 3.13* |
| Racial group, n (%) | 0.23 | 3.95 | ||||||
| •White | 77 (92.8%) | 111 (91.7%) | 183 (91.5%) | 107 (97.3%) | 104 (92.9%) | 117 (97.5%) | ||
| •African American | 2 (2.4%) | 3 (2.5%) | 5 (2.5%) | 1 (0.9%) | 4 (3.6%) | 2 (1.7%) | ||
| •Native American | 0 | 1 (0.8%) | 4 (2.0%) | 0 | 2 (1.8%) | 0 | ||
| •Asian | 0 | 1 (0.8%) | 1 (.5%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| •Others | 4 (4.8%) | 5 (4.1%) | 7 (3.5%) | 2 (1.8%) | 2 (1.8%) | 1 (0.8%) | ||
| Male, n (%) | 26 (31.3%) b | 45 (37.2%) b | 115 (57.2%) c | 21.16*** | 49 (44.5%) | 52 (46.4%) | 66 (55.0%) | 2.90 |
| Education, n (%) | 11.69* | 10.38* | ||||||
| •High School graduate, GED or less | 25 (30.1%) b | 30 (24.8%) b | 42 (20.9%) b | 23 (20.9%) b | 42 (37.5%) c | 38 (31.7%) b, c | ||
| •Some college | 16 (19.3%) b | 30 (24.8%) b, c | 75 (37.3%) c | 32 (29.1%) b | 29 (25.9%) b | 40 (33.3%) b | ||
| •College graduate | 42 (50.6%) b | 61 (50.4%) b | 84 (41.8%) b | 55 (50.0%) b | 41 (36.6%) b, c | 41 (34.2%) c | ||
| Depression (CES-D), mean (SD) | 7.95 (7.57) | 9.42 (8.62) | 9.59 (8.89) | 1.14 | 7.01 (6.50) | 5.64 (6.35) | 7.45 (5.98) | 2.59 |
| Self-reported history of cancer, n (%) | 8 (9.6%) | 7 (5.8%) | 13 (6.5%) | 1.25 | 25 (22.7%) | 23 (20.5%) | 27 (23.0%) | 0.23 |
| Self-reported history of stroke, n (%) | 1 (1.2%) | 0 | 0 | - a | 0 | 1 (0.9%) | 1 (0.8%) | - a |
| Self-reported history of heart failure, n (%) | 0 | 0 | 2 (1.0%) | - a | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.8%) | - a |
| Self-reported history of angina, n (%) | 0 | 1 (0.8%) | 1 (0.5%) | - a | 2 (1.8%) | 0 | 2 (1.7%) | - a |
| Self-reported history of heart attack, n (%) | 3 (3.6%) | 1 (0.8%) | 1 (0.5%) | - a | 3 (2.7%) | 5 (4.5%) | 3 (2.5%) | 2.26 |
Note.
a
Sample sizes in subgroups were too small to compare the difference.
b, c
Each subscript letter denotes a subset of education categories whose column proportions do not differ significantly from each other.
*
p < .05;
**
p < .01;
***
p < .001.