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Published in final edited form as: J Behav Med. 2016 Feb;39(1):179–180. doi: 10.1007/s10865-015-9690-x

Erratum to: Neighborhood matters: the impact of Hispanic ethnic density on future depressive symptoms 1-year following an ACS event among Hispanic patients

Ellen-ge D Denton 1,✉, Jonathan A Shaffer 2, Carmela Alcantara 3, Esteban Cadermil 4
PMCID: PMC4933021  NIHMSID: NIHMS734182  PMID: 26518206

The values in Tables 1 and 2 were not aligned correctly in the original publication. It is now corrected with this Erratum.

Table 1. Descriptives, individual- and neighborhood-level characteristics by gender and unadjusted associations of individual and neighborhood characteristics with 1-year depressive symptoms among 252 Hispanic participants with acute coronary syndrome.

Individual-and-neighborhood level characteristics Total sample mean (SD) unless otherwise noted Male mean (SD) or N (%) Female mean (SD) or N (%) Bivariate correlation with 1-year BDI score Bivariate correlation with Δ BDI score
Demographic factors
 Age 61.4 (11.0) 60.7 (11.4) 62.6 (10.4) −0.14* −0.14*
 English fluency 1.9 (1.5) 2.0 (1.5) 1.9 (1.6) 0.04 −0.01
 Education (years) 10.4 (4.4) 10.8 (4.6) 9.8 (3.9)* −0.22 0.03
 Foreign-born 261 (80.1) 162 (62.1) 99 (37.9) 0.05 0.05
 Male sex, N (%) 199 (61 %) – – 0.20** 0.20**
Cardiovascular factors
 Charlson comorbidity index 1.7 (1.7) 1.4 (1.5) 2.1 (1.9)** 0.19** −0.12
 Left ventricular ejection fraction 50.3 (12.6) 49.1 (12.4) 52.2 (12.6)* 0.03 0.15*
 GRACE prognostic risk score 89.6 (30.0) 88.7 (29.2) 91.1 (31.4) −0.12 −0.24**
 Baseline BDI score 9.2 (8.2) 6.7 (5.9) 12.8 (10.0)** 0.63** −0.45**
 1-year BDI score 7.1 (8.2) 5.5 (6.2) 9.5 (10.0)** – 0.41**
Neighborhood SES factors
Median income ($) 41,556 (24,483) 41,251 (21,411) 42,029 (28,686) −0.09 −0.03
 Households receiving public assistance (%) 6.3 (4.5) 6.4 (4.5) 6.1 (4.4) 0.01 0.01
 Hispanic density (%) 56.1 (26.6) 55.7 (26.5) 56.7 (26.6) 0.08 −0.02
 Residential density (N) 2308.2 (955.7) 2318.4 (942.6) 2292.5 (979.3) −0.06 −0.004

GRACE global registry of acute coronary events, BDI beck depression inventory

*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01

Table 2. Descriptives for demographic, clinical, and neighborhood factors by tertile Hispanic ethnic density among 252 Hispanic participants with acute coronary syndrome.

Demographic, clinical, and neighborhood factors Low density Mean (SD) or N (%) Moderate density Mean (SD) or N (%) High density Mean (SD) or N (%) p
Demographic factors
 Age 61.5 (9.8) 62.9 (11.2) 60.9 (11.1) 0.47
 Male 20 (10.1) 40 (20.1) 139 (69.8) 0.76
 English fluency 2.7 (1.6) 2.7 (1.4) 1.6 (1.4) <0.001
Education (years)
 Foreign-born 11.8 (4.1) 11.9 (3.6) 9.8 (4.5) <0.001
 Cardiovascular factors 18 (6.9) 49 (18.8) 194 (74.3) 0.002
 Charlson comorbidity index 2.1 (1.7) 1.7 (1.8) 1.6 (1.7) 0.33
 Left ventricular ejection fraction 53.0 (12.2) 51.4 (12.9) 49.6 (12.5) 0.30
 GRACE prognostic risk score 88.5 (28.7) 89.0 (32.2) 90.0 (29.7) 0.95
 Baseline BDI score 8.1 (7.1) 9.0 (7.9) 9.6 (8.5) 0.62
Neighborhood SES factors
 Median income ($) 96,709 (45,184) 54,255 (24,594) 32,931 (9560) <0.001
 Households receiving public assistance (%, SD) 1.3 (1.7) 4.2 (4.9) 7.4 (4.0) <0.001
 Hispanic density (%, SD) 5.2 (3.0) 24.0 (8.9) 70.3 (14.4) <0.001
 Residential density (N, SD) 1674.1 (599.6) 1729.6 (787.6) 2536.4 (930.7) <0.001
 1 year BDI score 5.0 (5.0) 6.3 (7.7) 7.5 (8.6) 0.29
 Δ BDI score −2.6 (5.4) −2.3 (5.5) −1.9 (7.7) 0.86

p values are based on the analysis of variance for continuous measures

p values are based on the χ2 test for categorical measures

GRACE Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events, BDI beck depression inventory

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