Table 1.

Descriptive Characteristics of the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Life Span (HANDLS)

	Overall (N=629)	Black (N=308)	White (N = 321)
Mean Education in years (SE)	12.6(0.14)	12.1(2.7)	13.1(3.9)
% Below 125% of Federal Poverty level	52	71*	34
Mean age (SE)	48.5(8.9)	48.2(8.8)	48.7 (8.9)
% Men	47	47	48
C- reactive protein mg/dL	3.82 (4.9)	3.74 (5.2)*	3.91 (4.7)
Heme degradation Ŧ	6.96 (1.65)	7.53 (1.72)*	6.4 (1.37)
% Obese	43	43	43
Smoking status
% Never tried	24	21*	26
% Tried, never used regularly	6	6	6
% Former user	18	14*	22
%Current	52	59*	46
Racial discrimination
% Not at all	38	19*	57
% Some/A little	51	62*	39
% A lot	11	19*	4

^*= significantly different than Whites at p < 0.05 level

^ŦArbitrary Fluorescence units