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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2013 Dec 3;34(6):746–755. doi: 10.1177/0272989X13513338

Table 3.

Description of the study population, n = 484

Parameter Number (percent)

Gender
Male 166 (34%)
Female 315 (65%)
Missing 3 (1%)

Age
50–54 87 (18%)
55–59 86 (18%)
60–64 88 (18%)
65–69 88 (18%)
70–74 54 (11%)
75–79 44 (9%)
80–84 37 (8%)
Missing 0

Race
African-American 238 (49%)
American Indian 1 (0.2%)
Asian 2 (0.4%)
White 202 (42%)
Missing or Other 41 (9%)

Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic 405 (91%)
Hispanic 3 (0.7%)
Missing or Other 76 (8%)

Education
< 7 years 2 (0.4%)
Junior high school 24 ( 5%)
Partial high school 54 (11%)
High school 152 (31%)
Partial college 121 (25%)
College 64 (13%)
Graduate 60 (12%)
Missing 7 (1%)