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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2018 Oct 26;76:28–36. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2018.10.008

Table 3.

Bivariate correlations of CRP with social cohesion and demographic, clinical, behavioral, and psychosocial covariates.

Overall (N=358) White Women (N=109) African American Women (N=126) White Men (N=57) African American Men (N=66)
Age (years) 0.08 0.21* −0.11 0.15 0.26*
Education −0.12* −0.09 −0.08 −0.02 −0.06
Hypertension 0.25** 0.29** 0.16 0.25 0.29*
Diabetes/Impaired 0.08
Fasting Glucose 0.06 0.04 0.11 0.06
LDL-C (mg/dL) −0.0005 0.10 −0.08 0.02 0.02
Total Cholesterol (mg/dL) −0.04 0.02 −0.16 0.08 −0.002
Fasting Glucose (mg/dL) 0.09 0.20* −0.001 0.04 0.17
Statin Use 0.04 0.10 −0.14 0.04 0.23
Antihypertensive Use 0.22** 0.27** 0.15 0.12 0.28*
BMI (kg/m2) 0.35** 0.43** 0.27** 0.22 0.37**
Current Smoker 0.11* 0.14 0.08 0.09 0.08
Leisure PA −0.18** −0.30** −0.03 −0.05 −0.19
Framingham Risk Score 0.13* 0.34** −0.03 0.20 0.26*
ASCVD Risk Score 0.15** 0.36** −0.01 0.25 0.31*
PSQI 0.04 0.08 −0.08 0.04 0.04
BDI-II 0.06 0.22* −0.12 0.18 0.09
Neighborhood Social −0.11*
Cohesion −0.13 −0.17 0.07 0.12
IL-6 (pg/ml) 0.42** 0.42** 0.41** 0.10 0.55**
*

p < 0.05

**

p < 0.01

Values determined using Pearson correlations for continuous covariates and Spearman correlations for categorical covariates.