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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Psychiatry. 2012 Mar 16;53(7):1028–1033. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.02.003

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics1

Patients with Schizophrenia
or Schizoaffective Disorder
NHANES
Sample size 130 250
Gender M=56; F=74 M=107; F=143
Ethnicity
(Caucasian/African
American/Hispanic)
C=51; AA=71; H=8 C=102; AA=132; H=16
Age (mean years) 45.3 ± 10.4 45.4 ± 10.3
BMI (kg/m2) 38.2 ± 7.8 37.6 ± 7.1
Household Income (under
$20,000/year)
123 (95%) 45 (18%)
Diabetes medication 57 (44%) 43 (17%)
Cholesterol medication 40 (31%) 48 (19%)
Blood Pressure medication 52 (40%) 88 (35%)
1

Age is reported as mean ± SD. Values in parentheses are the percentage of the sample.