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Published in final edited form as: Biodemography Soc Biol. 2017;63(3):206–220. doi: 10.1080/19485565.2017.1300519

Table 4.

Predicted change in the probability of death (per 1,000) associated with substituting the distribution of white characteristics for those of blacks based on coefficients shown in Table 2, Model 3

Characteristic	Predicted death per 1,000	Difference relative to all black
	WOMEN

All Black	9.45
White, Black age distribution	5.35	4.10
Black, White BMI	8.32	1.13
Black, White smoking	9.21	0.24
Black, White education	8.44	1.01
	MEN

All Black	14.97
White, Black age distribution	8.12	6.85
Black, White BMI	14.88	0.09
Black, White smoking	13.79	1.18
Black, White education	13.64	1.33