Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Hypertens. 2015 Nov;33(11):2215–2222. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000000693

Table 1.

Baseline Demographics By Presence of Anxiety or Depression

Total Population n=4362 Diagnosis of Anxiety and/or Depression n=573 (13%) No Diagnosis of Anxiety or Depression n=3789 (87%) P value
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS
Age, m (SD) 52 (14) 48 (14) 52 (14) <0.001
  Lowest age tertile, n (%) 1522 (35) 260 (45) 1262 (33)
  Middle age tertile, n (%) 1402 (32) 181 (32) 1221 (32) <0.001
  Highest age tertile, n (%) 1438 (33) 132 (23) 1306 (34)
Male, n (%) 2280 (52) 236 (41) 2044 (54) <0.001
Race/Ethnicity, n (%) 0.41
  White 3789 (87) 504 (88) 3285 (87)
  Non-White* 573 (13) 69 (12) 504 (13)
Marital Status, n (%) <0.001
  Single/Divorced/Widowed 1662 (38) 289 (50) 1373 (36)
  Married/Partnered 2700 (62) 284 (50) 2416 (64)
Primary Spoken Language, n (%) 0.11
  English 4083 (94) 545 (95) 3538 (93)
  Other 279 (6.4) 28 (4.9) 251 (6.6)
Tobacco Use, n (%) <0.001
  Current Tobacco Use 684 (16) 107 (19) 577 (15)
  Former Tobacco Use 1051 (24) 166 (29) 885 (23)
  Never Used Tobacco 2627 (60) 300 (52) 2327 (61)
Body mass index, kg/m2, m (SD) 32 (7.5) 31 (7.7) 32 (7.5) 0.34
  BMI <25 kg/m2, n (%) 612 (14) 104 (18) 508 (13)
  BMI 25–29 kg/m2, n (%) 1246 (29) 155 (27) 1091 (29) 0.01
  BMI ≥30 kg/m2, n (%) 2504 (57) 214 (55) 2190 (58)
On Medicaid ever, n (%) 399 (9.2) 103 (18) 296 (7.8) <0.001
JNC 7 Hypertension Stage, n (%) <0.001
  Stage 1: 140–159/90–99 mmHg 2604 (60) 399 (70) 2205 (58)
  Stage 2: 160–179/100–109 mmHg 1758 (40) 174 (30) 1584 (42)
Baseline Comorbid Conditions, n (%)
  Hyperlipidemia 894 (21) 139 (24) 755 (20) 0.02
  Diabetes mellitus 273 (6.3) 39 (6.8) 234 (6.2) 0.56
ACG§ Score, young, m (SD) 1.4 (1.3) 1.8 (1.5) 1.3 (1.3) <0.001
  Lowest ACG tertile, n (%) 1508 (35) 127 (22) 1381 (36)
  Middle ACG tertile, n (%) 1400 (32) 133 (23) 1267 (33) <0.001
  Highest ACG tertile, n (%) 1454 (33) 313 (55) 1141 (30)
Baseline Ambulatory Visit Counts, annual, (m, SD)
  Primary Care Visits 2.0 (1.9) 3.2 (2.5) 1.8 (1.7) <0.001
  Specialty Care Visits 1.7 (2.3) 2.0 (2.5) 1.6 (2.3) <0.001
  Urgent Care Visits 0.39 (0.82) 0.40 (0.82) 0.39 (0.82) 0.89
PROVIDER CHARACTERISTICS
Specialty Providing Majority of Ambulatory Care, n (%) 0.64
  Primary Care|| 3888 (89) 514 (90) 3374 (89)
  Specialty Care 474 (11) 59 (10) 415 (11)
Provider Age, m (SD) 46 (11) 46 (11) 46 (11) 0.47
Female Provider, n (%) 1965 (45) 289 (50) 1676 (44) 0.01

N, numerator, %, percent; m, mean; SD, standard deviation; BMI, body mass index, kg/m2, kilograms per meters squared

*

Non-White: Black (5.6%), Hispanic/Latino (2.1%), Asian (1.9%), Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (0.4%), American Indian/Alaska Native(0.3%); Unknown (2.7%)

On Medicaid at any point during the baseline or study period

JNC 7 Stage of Hypertension = severity of blood pressure elevation at study entry

§

ACG = Adjusted Clinical Group Case-Mix Assessment System

||

Primary Care = Family Medicine/Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics/Adolescent Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology

AMA is the source for the raw physician data (provider ages only); statistics, tables, or tabulations were prepared by User-Customer (M.

Smith; PI: H. Johnson) using 2011 AMA Masterfile data.