Table 1.
Sample characteristics by race/ethnicity.
| Variables | Descriptive (unit = %) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | Hispanic | Asian | AIANa | |
| n = 554,775 | n = 42,737 | n = 30,833 | n = 9328 | n = 6962 | |
| Mean/% (SE) | Mean/% (SE) | Mean/% (SE) | Mean/% (SE) | Mean/% (SE) | |
| Age | 63.70 (0.03) | 61.41 (0.09) | 61.13 (0.12) | 60.94 (0.23) | 60.55 (0.26) |
| Female | 53.85 | 56.61 | 53.45NS | 50.87 | 48.04 |
| Married | 70.13 | 47.64 | 66.55 | 73.04 | 65.49 |
| Education (at least a high school education) | 93.05 | 79.92 | 60.62 | 78.70 | 74.28 |
| Insurance | 94.59 | 86.12 | 80.65 | 87.68 | 81.84 |
| Diabetes | 11.35 | 22.72 | 22.14 | 16.86 | 20.29 |
| Heart attack | 7.81 | 7.58NS | 7.83NS | 6.05 | 12.93 |
| Coronary heart disease | 8.82 | 6.95 | 7.73 | 6.84 | 10.10 |
| Stroke | 4.33 | 6.81 | 4.33NS | 3.32 | 8.15 |
| High blood pressure | 40.65 | 58.55 | 41.92NS | 39.52NS | 38.81NS |
| Smoked at least 100 cigarettes | 50.76 | 48.74 | 40.64 | 34.27 | 54.74 |
| Days consumed alcohol in the last 30 days | 5.78 (0.03) | 2.55 (0.09) | 2.63 (0.10) | 2.73 (0.24) | 3.9 (0.37) |
| Underweight | 5.56 | 5.54NS | 10.80 | 7.17 | 6.90 |
| Normal weight | 33.57 | 22.33 | 24.26 | 41.45 | 27.53 |
| Overweight | 38.81 | 37.93 | 37.86 | 37.33 | 37.04 |
| Obese | 22.07 | 34.20 | 27.08 | 14.04 | 28.53 |
| No teeth removed | 37.12 | 16.85 | 30.00 | 35.97NS | 28.44 |
| 1–5 Teeth removed | 39.56 | 42.34 | 45.94 | 42.24 | 39.44NS |
| 5+ Teeth removed | 23.32 | 40.81 | 24.06 | 21.78 | 32.11 |
NS, not significant at p-value 0.01 (in comparison to White as a reference group).
a American Indian/Native Alaskan