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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2013 Dec 15;24(1):e53–e59. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2013.09.006

Table 1. Distribution of Early Life Factors and Perceived Discrimination by the Number of Chronic Physical Health Conditions, New York Women’s Birth Cohort Adult Follow-Up, 2001-2006.

Reports of chronic physical conditions
Characteristic No Condition
Single Condition
Multiple
N=67 N=45 Conditions N=56
No. (%) Mean
(SD)
No. (%) Mean
(SD)
No. (%) Mean
(SD)
P Value
 Race/Ethnicity Hispanic
African American
White
20 (32)
18 (32)
29 (58)
23 (37)
14 (25)
8 (16)
19 (31)
24 (43)
13 (26)
0.01
 Age (years) Continuous 41.13
(1.55)
41.24
(1.35)
41.38
(1.51)
0.63
Early Life Factors
 Birth weight (kg)
 tertile
1(<2.92)
2(2.92-<3.29)
3(≥3.29)
21 (39)
21 (39)
25 (42)
13 (24)
15 (28)
17 (28)
20 (37)
18 (33)
18 (30)
0.93
 SES at birth
 tertile
Low tertile
Medium tertile
High tertile
25 (38)
20 (38)
22 (45)
18 (27)
15 (29)
11 (22)
23 (35)
17 (33)
16 (33)
0.37
 Maternal
 education
High school or higher degree
Less than high school degree
39 (42)
28 (38)
21 (23)
23 (31)
32 (35)
23 (31)
0.49
 Age at menarche
 (years)
Continuous 12.6
(1.6)
12.7
(1.6)
12.5
(2.0)
0.85
 Childhood family
 structure
Single parent
Two parent
14 (38)
53 (40)
9 (24)
36 (27)
14 (38)
42 (32)
0.80
Adult Factors
 Marital statusa Never Married
Marriedor living as married
Other
12 (35)
41 (40)
14 (44)
7 (21)
33 (32)
5 (16)
15 (44)
28 (27)
13 (41)
0.18
 Adult household
 income
< 50K
50K-<90K
≥ 90K
16 (31)
31 (53)
20 (34)
10 (20)
13 (22)
22 (37)
25 (49)
14 (24)
17 (29)
0.01
 Adult education College or higher degree
Less than college degree
31 (40)
36 (40)
25 (32)
20 (22)
21 (27)
35 (38)
0.19
 BMI (kg/m2) <25
25-29.9
≥30
35 (49)
16 (33)
16 (36)
23 (32)
13 (26)
9 (20)
14 (19)
20 (41)
20 (44)
0.03
 Current smoking
 status
Nonsmokers
Former Smoker
Current smoker
27 (35)
20 (42)
20 (45)
27 (35)
10 (21)
8 (18)
23 (30)
17 (36)
16 (36)
0.28
 Have you ever
 experienced
 discrimination
 due to race?
0
1-2
3+
43 (51)
14 (31)
10 (26)
18 (21)
12 (27)
15 (38)
23 (27)
19 (42)
14 (36)
0.03
 Have you ever
 experienced
 discrimination
 due to gender?
0
1-2
3+
44 (43)
18 (42)
5 (22)
28 (27)
8(19)
9(39)
30 (29)
17 (39)
9 (39)
0.21

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation; SES, socioeconomic status

a

Other category includes women who are not living with spouse/partner, separated, or widowed.