Table 1.
Descriptive table for Men's Health: Regional Assessment of Health Surveillance Study, 2004–2005*
| Rural 256 |
Urban 292 |
Full | |||||||
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| Characteristics | White | Black | t_P | White | Black | t_P | sample† | 548 | |
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| Age (years) | Mean (SD) | 49.82 (17.65) |
44.57 (15.91) |
0.032 | 48.17 (16.25) |
48.16 (16.99) |
0.9976 | 48.29 (16.88) | |
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| % | % | X2_P | % | % | X2_P | n | % | ||
| Cardiovascular clinical risk factors | |||||||||
| BMI category | |||||||||
| BMI≥25 | 68.62% | 79.41% | 0.0911 | 57.78% | 66.07% | 0.1578 | 361 | 65.88% | |
| BMI<25 | 31.38% | 20.595 | 42.22% | 33.93% | 187 | 34.12% | |||
| Hypertension status | |||||||||
| Yes | 38.30% | 51.47% | 0.0591 | 25.56% | 42.86% | 0.0021 | 201 | 36.68% | |
| No | 61.70% | 48.53% | 74.44% | 57.14% | 347 | 63.32% | |||
| Diabetes status | |||||||||
| Yes | 12.77% | 11.76% | 0.8306 | 3.33% | 14.29% | 0.0006 | 54 | 9.85% | |
| No | 87.23% | 88.24% | 96.67% | 85.71% | 494 | 90.15% | |||
| Cholesterol | |||||||||
| status | |||||||||
| Yes | 43.05% | 38.10% | 0.5652 | 37.82% | 38.20% | 0.9528 | 174 | 39.73% | |
| No | 56.95% | 61.90% | 62.18% | 61.80% | 264 | 60.27% | |||
| Clinical risks | |||||||||
| 2 or more | 59.60% | 59.52% | 0.9927 | 38.46% | 55.06% | 0.0119 | 224 | 51.14% | |
| Less than 2 | 40.40% | 40.48% | 61.54% | 44.94% | 214 | 48.86% | |||
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| Social determinants | |||||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| Less than high school | 14.36% | 23.53% | 0.0026 | 2.78% | 13.39% | <0.0001 | 63 | 11.50% | |
| High school | 35.11% | 50% | 8.33% | 35.71% | 155 | 28.28% | |||
| Some college or more | 50.53% | 26.47% | 88.89% | 50.89% | 330 | 60.22% | |||
| Employment *** | |||||||||
| Employed | 85.03% | 64.71% | 0.0004 | 92.22% | 79.46% | 0.0014 | 458 | 83.73% | |
| Unemployed | 14.97% | 35.29% | 7.78% | 20.54% | 89 | 16.27% | |||
| Income | |||||||||
| <25K | 34.83% | 52.38% | 0.0331 | 6.83% | 40.38% | <0.0001 | 148 | 29.25% | |
| ≥25k and <50k | 41.57% | 34.92% | 16.15% | 33.65% | 157 | 31.03% | |||
| ≥50k | 23.60% | 12.70% | 77.02% | 25.96% | 201 | 39.72% | |||
| General Stress Level | |||||||||
| Very little or none | 39.89% | 48.53% | 0.3368 | 23.33% | 48.21% | <0.0001 | 204 | 37.23% | |
| Some | 34.04% | 25% | 36.67% | 29.46% | 180 | 32.85% | |||
| High or very high | 26.06% | 26.47% | 40% | 22.32% | 164 | 29.93% | |||
| Experience of racial discrimination | |||||||||
| Yes | 19.68% | 52.94% | <0.0001 | 24.44% | 68.75% | <0.0001 | 354 | 64.60% | |
| No | 80.32% | 47.06% | 75.56% | 31.25% | 194 | 35.40% | |||
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Stress related to racial discrimination |
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| Low or no stress at all | 83.51% | 54.41% | <0.0001 | 83.89% | 43.75% | <0.0001 | 394 | 71.90% | |
| Moderate or higher | 16.49% | 45.59% | 16.11% | 56.25% | 154 | 28.10% | |||
*
Data were derived from a cross-sectional survey conducted from 2004 through 2005 in one Urban area (Fulton county) and four Rural areas (Bulloch, Candler, Evans and Jenkins County) in Georgia using 2-part stratified random sampling.
**
Body mass index was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters.
***
The Employed included those who were self-employed, employed full-time and Retired; The Unemployed category included those out of work, unable to work, and students.
†
Full sample includes both Rural and Urban respondents.