Table 1. Sample Characteristics by Race/Ethnicity1.
| Variables | Racial/Ethnic Group, %/Mean(SD) | Contrast with Caucasian, p-value | |||||||
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| Caucasian (n=86,755) | African American (n=15,295) | Hispanic (n=13,068) | Asian (n=2,666) | Native American (n=616) | African American | Hispanic | Asian | Native American | |
| Age (range: 50-85) | 65.49 (10.77) | 63.65 (10.2) | 62.88 (9.87) | 63.57 (10.24) | 62.11 (9.52) | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 |
| Female | 57.77 | 61.44 | 58.75 | 55.37 | 53.48 | <.0001 | 0.032 | 0.013 | 0.032 |
| Married | 53.56 | 32.45 | 51.26 | 63.47 | 42.02 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 |
| Education | - | - | - | - | - | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 |
| 1-11th | 15.45 | 32.17 | 51.47 | 16.95 | 28.08 | - | - | - | - |
| high school | 34.99 | 32.32 | 24.44 | 24.66 | 33.50 | - | - | - | - |
| some college | 25.33 | 22.14 | 15.07 | 18.72 | 25.94 | - | - | - | - |
| bachelor | 13.95 | 7.64 | 5.64 | 25.85 | 7.72 | - | - | - | - |
| graduate | 10.27 | 5.73 | 3.38 | 13.81 | 4.76 | - | - | - | - |
| Smoking | 16.52 | 21.03 | 14.14 | 8.93 | 30.57 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 |
| ADL (range: 0-6) | 0.09 (0.58) | 0.17 (0.81) | 0.14 (0.78) | 0.1 (0.67) | 0.18 (0.83) | <.0001 | <.0001 | 0.182 | 0.000 |
| IADL | 8.34 | 12.82 | 9.18 | 6.49 | 14.91 | <.0001 | 0.002 | 0.001 | <.0001 |
| Memory problem | 4.95 | 8.44 | 6.69 | 5.07 | 11.36 | <.0001 | <.0001 | 0.782 | <.0001 |
| Heart attack | 8.14 | 6.67 | 5.96 | 4.07 | 10.06 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | 0.072 |
| Coronary heart disease | 9.75 | 8.17 | 7.28 | 6.81 | 11.71 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | 0.094 |
| Diabetes | 12.01 | 22.07 | 20.89 | 15.65 | 26.03 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 |
| Hypertension | 45.54 | 62.81 | 45.00 | 43.90 | 52.36 | <.0001 | 0.244 | 0.093 | 0.001 |
| Lung disease | 15.67 | 15.21 | 12.99 | 10.84 | 23.16 | 0.151 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 |
1
Actual sample size was presented; however, the frequencies and means were weighted.