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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2017 Mar 28;199:157–166. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.058

Table 1.

Descriptive means (with standard errors) and percentages for women by ethnoracial group, Chicago Community Adult Health Study, 2000–2002 (N=1807).

	Women
	Total N=1870	White N=551	Black N=824	Hispanic N=455	B-W	H-W	B-H
Body mass index, kg/m2	28.52	26.05	30.71	29.63	^***	^***	^*
Body mass index, kg/m2	(.24)	(.32)	(.36)	(.35)
Waist circumference, cm	91.05	85.52	96.79	92.42	^***	^***	^***
Waist circumference, cm	(.57)	(.84)	(.84)	(.82)
Vigilance categories (%)					^***		^***
None	29	35	18	36
Low (ref)	53	56	52	48
High	18	9	30	16
Discrimination (%)					^***		^***
None	34	37	23	45
Low (ref)	62	61	70	52
High	4	2	7	3
Age, years	43.37	44.95	44.50	39.88		^***	^***
Age, years	(.51)	(.97)	(.68)	(.94)
Income poverty ratio	2.95	4.41	2.21	1.95	^***	^***	^†
Income poverty ratio	(.14)	(.30)	(.11)	(.11)
Education, years	12.88	14.35	12.89	10.45	^***	^***	^***
Education, years	(.141)	(.193)	(.137)	(.248)
Race/ethnicity (%)
White	37
Black	35
Hispanic	25
Other	3
Immigrant generation (%)					^***	^***	^***
1^st	26	20	2	62
2^nd	13	17	2	24
3^rd or more (ref)	61	64	97	13

Note: Standard errors are reported due to multiply-imputed data used to obtain estimates.

^***

p<.001;

^**

p<.01;

^*

p<.05;

^†

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