Table 1.
Baseline characteristics (frequency or mean (SE)) of female participants in the Echocardiographic Study of Latinos (n=1172)
| Overall | 0 Births (5.0%) |
1 Birth (13.5%) |
2 Births (32.3%) |
3 Births (25.3%) |
4 Births (13.4%) |
5+ Births (10.5%) |
p Value* | |
| Age | 56.1 (0.5) | 56.1 (1.2) | 54.0 (0.7) | 55.4 (0.8) | 56.2 (1.4) | 56.2 (1.0) | 60.7 (1.1) | <0.01 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 31.0 (0.3) | 30.3 (0.9) | 29.9 (0.5) | 30.4 (0.4) | 31.4 (1.0) | 32.1 (0.5) | 32.2 (0.7) | 0.01 |
| Education | <0.01 | |||||||
| Less than HS | 33.9 | 23.3 | 21.9 | 20.7 | 36.5 | 54.5 | 62.3 | |
| HS or equivalent | 20.8 | 30.1 | 21.4 | 20.4 | 23.0 | 16.1 | 18.1 | |
| Greater than HS | 45.3 | 46.6 | 56.7 | 58.9 | 40.5 | 29.4 | 19.6 | |
| Income | 0.01 | |||||||
| <$20,000 | 57.9 | 52.2 | 58.5 | 59.8 | 49.5 | 53.5 | 80.8 | |
| $20 000 to $40 000 | 30.9 | 29.1 | 32.4 | 26.8 | 37.4 | 37.5 | 17.3 | |
| >$40 000 | 11.2 | 18.3 | 9.1 | 13.5 | 13.1 | 9.0 | 1.9 | |
| Current smoker | 13.9 | 17.3 | 21.2 | 12.7 | 8.5 | 22.7 | 9.0 | <0.01 |
| SBP | 134.3 (0.9) | 130.2 (2.5) | 130.5 (1.9) | 132.8 (1.2) | 135.6 (2.5) | 136.4 (2.5) | 140.2 (2.0) | <0.01 |
| Diabetes mellitus | 0.01 | |||||||
| No diabetes | 32.0 | 32.5 | 38.5 | 38.4 | 25.1 | 32.9 | 19.6 | |
| Prediabetes | 40.0 | 51.2 | 37.5 | 37.3 | 45.5 | 39.8 | 33.3 | |
| Diabetes | 28.0 | 16.3 | 24.1 | 24.3 | 29.4 | 27.3 | 47.1 | |
| Anti-HTN meds | 27.6 | 20.2 | 20.9 | 23.1 | 27.8 | 33.8 | 44.7 | 0.05 |
| Total cholesterol (mg/dL) | 214.2 (1.7) | 223.0 (7.8) | 216.3 (3.9) | 214.0 (3.1) | 216.1 (3.0) | 215.3 (3.7) | 202.1 (6.1) | 0.30 |
| HDL cholesterol (mg/dL) | 53.5 (0.5) | 54.7 (1.7) | 52.8 (1.1) | 53.3 (1.1) | 54.1 (0.8) | 54.1 (0.9) | 51.9 (1.5) | 0.76 |
*p Value from survey linear regression models for continuous measures and χ2 tests for categorical measures.
BMI, body mass index; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; HS, high school; HTN, hypertension; SBP, systolic blood pressure.