Table 1.

Patient Characteristics by Race/Ethnicity^*

Independent Variable	Percent of Respondents Within Category			Overall (N = 5,502)	p-value
	Black (N = 1,767)	Hispanic (N = 1,876)	White (N = 1,859)
Self-Reported Health					< 0.001
Fair/Poor	20.7	33.9	10.7	16.5
Excellent/Very Good/Good	79.3	66.1	89.3	83.5
Nativity					< 0.001
US-born	78.6	14.5	90.1	77.0
Foreign-born	21.4	85.5	9.9	23.0
Language of interview					< 0.001
English	99.7	35.0	99.8	91.2
Spanish	0.3	65.0	0.2	8.8
SES					< 0.001
Low	41.1	61.1	14.0	27.6
Medium	49.5	30.6	49.7	47.1
High	9.4	8.3	36.3	25.3
Marital Status					< 0.001
Married/Living with Partner	39.0	53.9	54.2	50.0
Single, Never Married	33.0	19.4	27.5	27.9
Other	28.1	26.7	18.3	22.1
Gender					0.08
Male	44.4	47.0	49.7	47.9
Female	55.6	53.0	50.3	52.1
Age Group					< 0.001
30–39	33.2	44.7	34.0	35.2
40–49	27.9	28.2	23.1	25.1
50–59	19.8	15.4	18.0	18.1
60–69	11.7	7.7	14.8	13.1
70–79	7.3	3.9	10.1	8.5
Depression Status					< 0.001
Yes	21.1	27.1	13.1	17.1
No	78.9	72.9	86.9	82.9
Comorbidity Category					0.642
0–3	96.7	97.1	97.4	97.2
4+	3.3	2.9	2.6	2.8
Comorbidity Prevalence
Arthritis	24.9	18.3	23.9	23.5	0.002
Asthma	19.3	17.0	15.4	16.7	0.112
Chronic lung disease	5.6	6.7	7.4	6.8	0.262
Diabetes (Type 1 or 2)	12.8	11.5	7.5	9.4	< 0.001
High blood pressure	36.6	24.8	23.6	27.3	< 0.001
Myocardial infarction	4.3	3.0	3.5	3.7	0.360

^*These data were weighted to the population of Boston as described in the methods section.