Table 1.
Frequency (%) of prevalent sociodemographic and health factors by perceived physical functioning status in 2000, Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.
| Total | No Limitation |
Some Limitation |
Substantial Limitation |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | |||||
| Age, years | 50.5 (2.7) | 50.4 (2.7) | 50.6 (2.6) | 50.6 (2.8) | 0.22 |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| Caucasian | 49.9 | 52.8 | 48.1 | 38.2 | <0.001 |
| African American | 29.0 | 23.4 | 31.7 | 51.7 | |
| Chinese | 10.1 | 10.5 | 10.4 | 6.3 | |
| Japanese | 11.2 | 13.3 | 9.7 | 3.8 | |
| Education | |||||
| High School or Less | 18.6 | 15.4 | 20.1 | 31.7 | <0.001 |
| Some College | 33.2 | 30.4 | 37.2 | 36.7 | |
| College Or More | 48.3 | 54.2 | 42.7 | 31.7 | |
| Health Factors | |||||
| Body Mass Index (kg/m2) | |||||
| Under or Normal weight | 33.2 | 42.3 | 22.0 | 15.1 | <0.001 |
| Overweight | 26.9 | 30.1 | 24.4 | 16.4 | |
| Obese | 39.9 | 27.7 | 53.6 | 68.5 | |
| Smoking | 13.5 | 11.4 | 14.5 | 22.4 | <0.001 |
| Alcohol consumption | 47,8 | 52.3 | 42.5 | 39.0 | <0.001 |
| Depressive symptoms | 17.9 | 12.5 | 20.8 | 39.2 | <0.001 |
| Menopausal status | |||||
| Premenopausal | 8.3 | 10.1 | 6.2 | 3.9 | <0.001 |
| Perimenopausal | 63.3 | 63.3 | 65.3 | 57.3 | |
| Postmenopausal | 28.4 | 26.5 | 28.6 | 38.8 | |
| Metabolic Syndrome | 21.9 | 14.7 | 29.3 | 41.4 | <0.001 |
| Elevated waist circumference | 47.6 | 35.0 | 63.1 | 73.9 | <0.001 |
| Elevated triglycerides | 24.3 | 19.4 | 30.3 | 34.2 | <0.001 |
| Reduced HDL-C | 31.4 | 25.3 | 38.1 | 45.6 | <0.001 |
| Elevated fasting glucose | 16.4 | 11.8 | 19.2 | 33.5 | <0.001 |
| Elevated blood pressure | 25.0 | 20.2 | 29.1 | 39.7 | <0.001 |
Notes: Metabolic syndrome was defined using established guidelines (Alberti et al., 2009). The presence of 3 of 5 abnormalities qualified a woman for the metabolic syndrome.