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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2012 Apr 9;31(4):433–440. doi: 10.1037/a0027783

Table 1.

Characteristics of the sample.

Variable Baseline
(N = 116)
Year 2
(N = 95)
Year 3
(N = 73)
Year 4
(N = 11)
Age, M (SD) 74.3 (8.1) 75.2 (7.9) 76.3 (7.7) 76.1 (7.7)

Female, n (%) 79 (68.1) 66 (69.5) 50 (68.5) 6 (54.5)

Race, n (%)
 White, non-Hispanic 101 (87.1) 86 (90.5) 69 (94.5) 11 (100.0)
 Hispanic 9 (7.7) 6 (6.3) 4 (5.5) 0 (0.0)
 Black 3 (2.6) 1 (1.1) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
 Asian 1 (0.9) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
 Native American 2 (1.7) 2 (2.1) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)

Education, n (%)
 < High School 3 (2.6) 2 (2.1) 1 (1.4) 0 (0.0)
 High School Graduate 22 (19.0) 20 (21.1) 15 (20.5) 2 (18.2)
 Some College 40 (34.5) 33 (34.7) 22 (30.1) 2 (18.2)
 College Graduate 18 (15.5) 12 (12.6) 12 (16.4) 3 (27.3)
 Professional Degree 33 (28.4) 28 (29.5) 23 (31.5) 4 (36.4)

History of CVD, n (%)* 13 (11.2) 12 (12.6) 7 (9.6) 1 (9.1)

Taking FMD-altering Med(s), n (%) 29 (25.0) 38 (40.0) 21 (28.8) 0 (0.0)

Systolic Blood Pressure (mm Hg), M (SD) 134.2 (15.5) 130.5 (15.7) 128.3 (13.8) 127.8 (10.9)

Diastolic Blood Pressure (mm Hg), M (SD) 76.0 (8.5) 72.4 (9.9) 69.9 (7.9) 71.4 (7.4)

Ever Smoked, n (%) 54 (46.6) 44 (46.3) 29 (39.7) 3 (27.3)

BMI, M (SD) 26.6 (4.8) 26.3 (4.5) 26.1 (5.0) 25.1 (3.0)

FMD, M (SD) 14.5 (5.7) 17.1 (7.1) 9.8 (5.3) 12.0 (6.7)

CESD-10, M (SD) 8.5 (5.8) 8.0 (5.8) 8.0 (6.2) 6.4 (3.6)

Leisure Satisfaction, M (SD) 55.7 (12.4) 59.3 (10.8) 56.6 (14.0) 57.8 (12.3)

Role Overload, M (SD) 5.1 (3.2) 4.2 (2.9) 4.0 (3.0) 2.5 (2.0)

Care Recipient CDR Score, n (%)+
 1 50 (43.1)
 2 59 (50.9)
 3 7 (6.0)

Note. CDR = Clinical Dementia Rating score.

*

values for individuals disease do not equal 20 because some participants had more than one condition.

+

CDR was not systematically evaluated across years.