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Published in final edited form as: J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2015 Dec 10;3(4):706–712. doi: 10.1007/s40615-015-0189-5

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for full sample and by race.

	Full Sample (n = 1,741)	Blacks (n = 1,006)	Whites (n = 735)

Variable	n (%) / Mean (SD)	n (%) / Mean (SD)	n (%) / Mean (SD)
Black	1006 (57.8%)	-	-
Female	990 (56.9%)	564 (56.1%)	426 (58.0%)
Poverty Status (Below 125% FPL)^*	770 (44.2%)	539 (53.6%)	231 (31.4%)
Age (in years)	47.86 (9.16)	47.91 (9.09)	47.80 (9.26)
Education (in years)^*	12.54 (3.01)	12.29 (2.53)	12.88 (3.56)
Single Parent^*	347 (24.3%)	250 (30.3%)	97 (16.1%)
Food Insecurity^*	1.09 (1.65)	1.20 (1.69)	0.95 (1.59)
HEI-2010	42.96 (11.46)	42.90 (10.36)	43.04 (12.82)

^*

Significant differences by race (p<.005)

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