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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2012 May 22;125(24):2975–2984. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.081083

Table 1.

Age, Sex and Cardiovascular Health Status at Baseline in the NOMAS Cohort

Characteristic Total Cohort (N=2981) Race-ethnicity
P-value for χ2/F test P-value adjusted for age and sex †
White (N=619) Black (N=745) Caribbean Hispanic (N=1617)
Age in years, Mean (SD) 69 (10) 73 (10) 72 (10) 66(9) <.0001
Female, % 63.7 60.7 67.2 63.3 0.04
Cardiovascular health metrics
 Smoking, % <.0001 <.0001
  Ideal (never or quit >1year) 80.5 85.3 74.9 81.3
  Intermediate ( quit < 1year) 2.1 1.3 2.2 2.4
  Poor (current) 17.3 13.4 23.0 16.3
 Body mass index, % <.0001 <.0001
  Ideal (<25 kg/m2) 30.7 47.2 30.3 24.6
  Intermediate (25–<30 kg/m2) 41.8 35.0 39.0 45.7
  Poor (≥30 kg/m2) 27.5 17.9 30.7 29.7
 Physical activity, % <0001 <.0001
  Ideal (≥75 min/wk vigorous or ≥150 min/wk moderate or equivalent combination) 33.3 45.2 37.6 26.8
  Intermediate (1–74 min/wk vigorous or 1–149 min/wk moderate or equivalent combination) 24.9 24.2 28.5 23.6
  Poor (no moderate and vigorous activity) 41.7 30.5 34.0 49.6
 Diet*, % 0.66 0.62
  Ideal (4–5 healthy components) 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.5
  Intermediate (2–3 healthy components) 24.7 23.2 25.9 24.8
  Poor (0–1 healthy component) 74.9 76.6 73.6 74.7
 Blood pressure, % <.0001 <.0001
  Ideal (untreated and <120/<80 mmHg) 5.9 9.1 5.3 5.0
  Intermediate (treated to <120/<80mmHg or 120–139/80–89 mmHg) 56.8 60.6 51.4 57.9
  Poor (≥140/90 mmHg) 37.3 30.3 43.4 37.2
 Total cholesterol, % 0.003 <.0001
  Ideal (untreated and <200 mg/dL) 42.1 35.3 46.0 43.0
  Intermediate (treated to <200 mg/dL or 200–239 mg/dL) 40.7 45.5 37.8 40.2
  Poor (≥240mg/dL) 17.2 19.2 16.2 16.8
 Plasma glucose, % 0.008 0.04
  Ideal (untreated and <100 mg/dL) 63.1 66.9 61.5 62.3
  Intermediate (treated to <100 mg/dL or 100–125/mg/dL) 21.1 22.1 21.3 20.5
  Poor (≥126 mg/dL) 15.9 11.0 17.2 17.2
Number of ideal health metrics, % <0.0001 <.0001
0 2.3 1.5 3.2 2.2
1 16.7 11.5 17.0 18.6
2 32 26.3 29.7 35.2
3 30.4 31.0 30.6 30.0
4 14.3 22.0 15.2 10.9
5 3.9 6.9 3.8 2.8
6 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.4
*

308 subjects were missing baseline diet data and the proportion of subjects with missing diet data was 9.5%, 11.9%, and 9.9% in whites, blacks and Caribbean Hispanics, respectively (p=0.24 for chi-square test with df of 2).

†

P values were based on Wald chi-square test with df of 2 in the multiple binary (ideal vs. other for individual metrics or 5–6 vs. 0–4 for the number of ideal health metrics) logistic regression after adjustment for age and sex.