Table 1. Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics (N=612).

Patient Characteristics	Mean (±SD) or % (n)
Age in years (±SD)	65.9 (13.0)
Gender : Female	41.3 (253)
Race : Caucasian	88.7 (543)
Education:
<high school	19.1 (117)
high school graduate	47.9 (293)
>beyond high school	33.0 (202)
Annual household income:
< $20,000	35.5 (217)
$20,001 - $40,000	29.4 (180)
$40,001 - $$75,000	15.5 (95)
> $75,000	7.5 (46)
Not reported	12.1 (74)
Married	56.4 (345)
Ejection fraction % (±SD) (n=602)	39.7 (15.4)
< 40%	50.5 (304)
≥ 40%	49.5 (298)
New York Heart Association Class (n=611)
Class I	10.5 (64)
Class II	54.3 (332)
Class III	31.1 (190)
Class IV	25 (4.1)
Etiology
ischemic	47.5 (290)
hypertension	24.3 (148)
cardiomyopathy	18.2 (111)
Idiopathic/viral/other	10.0 (61)
Charlson Co-Morbidity Index	3.4 (1.8)
Anxiety (BSI:range 0-4)	0.8 (0.9)
Cardiologist	75.2 (460)

Data were available for 612 except for income (n=538), NYHA class (n=611), HF etiology (n=610) and EF (n=602)