Table 1. Descriptive Characteristics of Final Sample According to Baseline Diabetes Status and High Depressive Symptoms (N=3,419).

Baseline characteristics	Diabetes and High Depressive Symptoms at Baseline				P value
	Neither	Diabetes, no depression	No diabetes, high depressive symptoms	Both
Age, mean (SD)	71.5 (8.4)	70.0 (7.0)	71.3 (8.6)	71.7 (8.1)	< 0.01
Yrs. Education, mean (SD)	8.6 (4.5)	8.4 (4.5)	7.3 (4.6)	6.7 (4.6)	0.02
Gender					< 0.01
Male	821 (43.4)	268 (43.3)	192 (30.7)	92 (32.6)
Female	1072 (56.6)	351 (56.7)	433 (69.3)	190 (67.4)
Marital status					< 0.01
Married	823 (43.5)	295 (47.7)	192 (30.7)	97 (34.4)
Not married	454 (24.0)	133 (21.5)	184 (29.4)	62 (22.0)
Widowed	616 (32.5)	191 (30.9)	249 (39.8)	123 (43.6)
Race / Ethnicity					0.62
White	8273 (46.1)	279 (45.1)	264 (42.2)	129 (45.7)
Black	111 (5.9)	36 (5.8)	35 (5.6)	12 (4.3)
Multiracial	909 (48.0)	304 (49.1)	326 (52.2)	141 (50.0)
Health insurance plan					< 0.01
Government	735 (38.8)	256 (41.4)	335 (53.6)	168 (59.6)
Medicare Part A or B	665 (35.1)	234 (37.8)	195 (31.2)	86 (30.5)
Other	423 (22.3)	117 (18.9)	87 (13.9)	24 (8.5)
Uninsured	70 (3.7)	12 (1.9)	8 (1.3)	4 (1.4)
Hypertension					< 0.01
No	915 (48.3)	189 (30.5)	268 (42.9)	68 (24.1)
Yes	978 (51.7)	430 (69.6)	357 (57.1)	214 (75.9)
Heart attack					< 0.01
No	1751 (92.5)	545 (88.0)	554 (88.6)	217 (77.0)
Yes	142 (7.5)	74 (12.0)	71 (11.4)	65 (23.0)
Stroke					< 0.01
No	1835 (96.9)	577 (93.2)	581 (93.0)	259 (91.8)
Yes	58 (3.1)	42 (6.8)	44 (7.0)	23 (8.2)
Arthritis					< 0.01
No	1069 (56.5)	313 (50.6)	251 (40.2)	102 (36.2)
Yes	824 (43.5)	306 (49.4)	374 (59.8)	180 (63.8)
Cognition, mean (SD)	16.8 (2.4)	17.0 (2.3)	16.2 (2.5)	16.2 (2.4)

Percentages are based on column total.