Table 1.

Distribution of socioeconomic and psychosocial factors and urinary stress hormones by race and ethnicity in the MESA stress study.

Distribution	Non-Hispanic White N = 176	Non-Hispanic Black N = 263	Hispanic N = 503	p-Value¶
Age (mean, SD)	66.9 (10.3)	64.8 (9.8)	64.9 (9.4)	<0.05
Gender (% male)	48.90	45.30	47.90	0.700
Education (%)
≤Completed high school	17.61	33.08	66.20	<.0001
Completed HS, technical	21.59	45.25	24.45
≥Bachelor degree	60.80	21.67	9.34
Income (%)
<12,000	2.91	13.73	21.22	<.0001
12,000–24,999	9.30	16.86	32.04
25,000–39,999	16.28	31.37	22.65
40,000–74,999	34.20	23.92	16.94
≥75,000	37.21	14.12	7.14
Wealth-index (%)
Index score 0	3.98	17.87	25.50	<.0001
Index score 1	21.59	26.24	26.10
Index score 2	18.18	22.05	26.49
Index score 3	32.95	20.53	14.34
Index score 4	23.30	13.31	7.57
Income-wealth index (%)
0–1	1.74	14.51	26.73	<.0001
2–3	15.70	30.20	33.67
4–6	50.00	40.00	31.02
7–8	32.56	15.29	8.57
Chronic burden (%)
None	38.29	34.36	36.58	0.387
1	30.86	25.87	29.22
2 or more	30.86	39.77	34.19
Median anger (Q1,Q3)	14 (12,17)	13 (11,16)	14 (11,17)	0.005
Median anxiety (Q1,Q3)	16 (12,20)	14 (11,18)	15 (12,19)	0.004
Median depression (Q1,Q3)	5 (2,12)	6 (3,12)	7 (3,13)	0.138
Median cortisola (Q1,Q3)	18.9 (11.9,26.6)	15.6 (9.0,23.8)	15.5 (9.8,23.4)	0.013
Median norepinephrinea (Q1,Q3)	2.5 (1.6,3.8)	2.4 (1.4,3.7)	2.3 (1.4,3.7)	0.528
Median epinephrinea (Q1,Q3)	26.4 (19.8,33.2)	25.8 (19.4,35.4)	27.4 (20.3,36.5)	0.384
Median dopaminea (Q1,Q3)	180 (149,244)	219 (172,286)	225 (182,286)	<0.0001

^ang/mg creatinine.

^¶p-Values calculated using chi-square tests for categorical and Kruskal–Wallis test for non-normally distributed continuous variables.