Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of 1829 non-Hispanic Black women in the analytic sample, wave 4 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, 2008
| Outcome variable | % (n) |
| hs-CRP | |
| < 1 mg/L (low risk) | 21.7 (418) |
| 1–3 mg/L (moderate risk) | 19.8 (397) |
| > 3–10 mg/L (high risk) | 33.3 (563) |
| > 10 mg/L (very high risk) | 25.2 (451) |
| Predictor variables of interest | |
| Social integration | Mean (SE) |
| Social integration index (range 0–4) | 1.14 (0.05) |
| Social integration components | % (n) |
| Married or cohabitating | 41.9 (732) |
| 6 or more close friends | 15.2 (301) |
| Volunteers at least once a year | 27.9 (636) |
| Attends church weekly or more | 29.0 (576) |
| Quality of social relationships | % (n) |
| Perceived happiness with romantic partner | |
| No partner | 21.5 (423) |
| Fairly happy or unhappy | 69.9 (1235) |
| Very happy | 8.6 (171) |
| Perceived closeness to mother figure | |
| No mother figure | 10.2 (169) |
| Not very close or not close at all | 9.3 (177) |
| Somewhat, quite or very close | 80.5 (1483) |
| Perceived closeness to father figure | |
| No father figure | 34.0 (541) |
| Not very close or not close at all | 20.0 (398) |
| Somewhat, quite, or very close | 46.0 (890) |
| Control variables | % (n) |
| Foreign birth | 1.9 (32) |
| College degree or more | 9.0 (115) |
| Receipt of public assistance past year | 52.2 (842) |
| Currently pregnant | 4.6 (88) |
| Hormonal contraceptive use past year | 34.1 (654) |
| Inflammatory medication use in the past month | 34.7 (642) |
| BMI categories | |
| Obese | 55.3 (960) |
| Overweight | 20.5 (416) |
| Under/Normal weight | 24.2 (453) |
| Current cigarette smoker | 11.0 (199) |
| Mean (SE) | |
| Age in years (range 24–34) | 28.4 (0.21) |
| No. of subclinical conditions (range 0–3) | 0.5 (0.04) |
| No. of infectious/inflammatory conditions (range 0–3) | 0.4 (0.04) |
| Self-reported overall health (range 1–5) | 2.7 (0.06) |