. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Pain Manag Nurs. 2016 Aug 21;17(5):294–301. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2016.05.007

Table 1.

Distribution of Select Characteristics of the Total Sample and by Gender for participants in the Baltimore Study on Black Aging

Characteristic	Total (N=598)	Women (N=446)	Men (N=152)	p-value
Age in years (mean and SD)	69.1 ± 9.7	69.9± 9.7	66.6±9.2	0.00
Men (%)	25.4
High School Graduate (%)	57.1	60.5	47.0	0.00
Income (mean and SD)	10.2±5.7	10.1±5.5	10.5±6.3	0.46
Married (%)	11.2	10.1	14.5	0.13
Two or more prevalent health conditions (%)^†	80.8	83.4	73.0	0.00
Disability (%)^‡	56.7	59.1	50.0	0.04
Pain (%)	50.0	53.3	40.1	0.00

^†

Prevalent health conditions consisted of ever being told by a doctor that you have: diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, or arthritis.

^‡

Disability was defined as reported difficulty in performing at least one of the seven basic activities of daily living (i.e. eating, bathing, grooming, walking, dressing, transferring in and out of bed, and using the toilet).