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Published in final edited form as: Int J Behav Med. 2015 Aug;22(4):540–550. doi: 10.1007/s12529-014-9448-9

Table 2.

Participant characteristics of confounders and potential mediators, stratified by ideal cardiovascular health status

	Cardiovascular health status^a		p value^b
	Not good (n=289)	Good (n=93)
Confounders
Age, years	47.0 (46.8, 47.2)	46.8 (46.4 ,47.1)	0.11
Sex, % female	53 (47, 59)	68 (58, 77)	0.01
Race/ethnicity, % white	63 (58, 69)	76 (67, 85)	0.02
Potential mediators
Depressive symptoms, % CESD ≥10	34 (29, 40)	18 (10, 25)	0.002
Sense of control, % with score >14	52 (46, 58)	39 (29, 48)	0.03
Education, % ≤high school	76 (71, 81)	52 (42, 62)	<0.001

Point estimates represent means or percentages (95% confidence intervals)

CESD Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale

Good cardiovascular health represents having ≥4 ideal cardiovascular health components

p values derived from unpaired t test for continuous variable and chi-squared tests for categorical variables