Table 1.

Descriptive statistics

	MESA1								HRS2
	n = 6,335								n = 10,163
	European American		African American		Hispanic American		Chinese American		European American		African American
	n = 2,514		n = 1,603		n = 1,443		n = 775		n = 8,652		n = 1,511
	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)
Depression score3
Baseline CES-D4	8	(7.8)	7.6	(7.6)	9.9	(9.2)	6.3	(6.6)	1.2	(1.8)	1.2	(1.8)
Averaged CES-D	8.7	(7.4)	7.8	(6.7)	10.2	(8.5)	6.2	(5.6)	1.2	(1.3)	1.9	(1.6)
Age	62.6	(10.2)	62.2	(10.1)	61.4	(10.3)	62.4	(10.4)	58.4	(8.8)	56.8	(8.2)
Sex (%)	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Male	1207	48.0	744	46.4	711	49.3	385	49.7	3,556	41.1	639	42.3
Site (%)
Baltimore, MD	505	20.1	482	30.1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Chicago, IL	526	20.9	258	16.1	-	-	275	35.4	-	-	-	-
Forsyth County, NC	548	21.8	425	26.5	3	0.2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Los Angeles, CA	133	5.3	143	8.9	554	38.4	498	64.3	-	-	-	-
New York, NY	209	8.3	295	18.4	431	29.9	2	0.3	-	-	-	-
St. Paul, MN	593	23.6	-	-	455	31.5	-	-	-	-	-	-
Anti-depressant Use (%)	307	12.2	61	3.8	84	5.8	19	2.5	-	-	-	-
Intraclass correlation
Repeated Measures CES-D	0.60		0.44		0.57		0.57		0.48		0.51

¹Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, ²Health and Retirement Study, ³CES-D measured as 20-item sum in MESA and as 8-item sum in HRS, ⁴Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression