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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2013 Jan 31;75(2):10.1097/PSY.0b013e31828233bf. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31828233bf

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for demographic, health, lifestyle, and social support variables in the full sample and by tertile of social support.

Full sample
n = 948
Mean (SD) or %
Social Support 1st Tertile
n = 266
Mean (SD) or %
Social Support 2nd Tertile
n = 347
Mean (SD) or %
Social Support 3rd Tertile
n = 335
Mean (SD) or %
P value
Age 61.4(10) 60.5(9.5) 62.5(10.1) 61(10) .03
Gender (% Male) 47.5% 44.7% 47.3% 49.9% .46
Race .14
 White 18.6% 19.2% 21.3% 15.2%
 African-American 28.5% 26.3% 30.5% 28.1%
 Hispanic 53% 54.5% 48.1% 56.7%
Adult Education .32
 Less than HS Diploma 26.3% 26.2% 24.3% 28.3%
 HS Diploma, Some college 50.5% 50% 49.3% 52.1%
 Completed Bachelor’s Degree 23.2% 23.8% 26.4% 19.6%
Current Family Income/Year .002
 $0–19,000 38.8% 47.4% 34% 37%
 $20–39,999 25.9% 26.7% 27.4% 23.9%
 $40–74,999 21.9% 18.4% 22.2% 24.5%
 $75,000 and greater 13.3% 7.5% 16.4% 14.6%
Body Mass Index 29(5.6) 29(5.4) 29(5.7) 29(5.6) .99
Pack-Years of Smoking 8.2(15.7) 9.4(16.5) 8.7(16.3) 6.6(14.2) .07
Pulse Pressure (mmHg) 53.3(16.6) 52.1(15.6) 53.3(16.9) 54.3(17) .27
Physical Activity (MET) 5691.8(5525) 5588.7(5397) 5588.2(5590) 5881(5570) .74
% Diabetic 27.1% 27.8% 25.6% 28.1% .73
Social Support 21.1(4.7) 14.7(3.7) 22.1(1.5) 25(0) NA
Leukocyte Telomere Length (T/S) .84(.17) .85(.18) .83(.16) .84(.17) .10

Note: For descriptive purposes, Table 1 reports p value for ANOVA and Pearson Chi-square analyses using tertile of Emotional Social Support. All regression models in Table 2 and reported in the text test associations with social support as a continuous variable.

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