Table 2.
Age-Adjusted Distribution of Health Related Characteristics among Men in NHIS and EHDIC-SWB, 2003
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| Variable | Whites n=8,904 |
Black n=1,551 |
p-value | Whites n=247 |
Black n=381 |
p-value |
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| Health Insurance (%) | 89.7 | 84.3 | <0.001 | 50.3 | 58.9 | 0.039 |
| Physical Inactivity (%) | 29.9 | 43.8 | <0.001 | 18.6 | 14.6 | 0.182 |
| Smoking Status (%) | ||||||
| Never | 47.0 | 53.4 | <0.001 | 18.6 | 27.3 | 0.014 |
| Former | 25.9 | 19.3 | <0.001 | 12.1 | 7.3 | 0.039 |
| Current | 23.4 | 22.9 | 0.735 | 65.4 | 62.4 | 0.453 |
| Drinking Status (%) | ||||||
| Never | 14.3 | 26.1 | <0.001 | 11.9 | 15.3 | 0.240 |
| Former | 13.6 | 18.0 | <0.001 | 34.4 | 31.4 | 0.443 |
| Current | 70.7 | 53.9 | <0.001 | 53.4 | 53.1 | 0.926 |
| Obese (%) | 24.7 | 31.4 | <0.001 | 21.9 | 23.5 | 0.648 |
| Fair/Poor Health (%) | 8.7 | 16.7 | <0.001 | 32.4 | 27.5 | 0.204 |
| Health Outcomes | ||||||
| Hypertension | 23.3 | 33.1 | <0.001 | 26.2 | 26.1 | 0.967 |
| Diabetes | 4.9 | 8.6 | <0.001 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 0.920 |
| Heart Disease | 6.1 | 5.1 | 0.168 | 12.6 | 8.7 | 0.103 |