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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Oct 30;17(1):143–149. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.464

Table 2.

Early retirement status: the ARIC study

	White women	African-American women	White men	African-American men
Retirement prior to age 65
Prevalence	19.3	21.5	21.6	18.7
Mean age at retirement (years)^a	58.8 ± 3.6	57.8 ± 3.5	58.8 ± 3.5	57.3 ± 3.7
For health reasons^a	13.9	44.7	19.4	39.5
Retirement prior to age 62
Prevalence	14.7	18.3	17.0	16.8
Mean age at retirement (years) ^a	57.3 ± 2.9	56.8 ± 2.9	57.6 ± 2.8	56.6 ± 3.3
For health reasons^a	16.4	48.4	21.8	42.1

Mean (s.d.) and frequencies.

Among those who reported retiring early.