Table 3.

Baseline descriptive statistics for Women in the Health Retirement Study, (N = 11,624), 2006–2008.

Variable	Black Women	White Women	Hispanic Women	p-value
	(n = 2354)	(n = 7797)	(n = 1458)
Baseline Age (in years) (range 46–99)	62.4	65.2	62.2	<.0001
Grip Strength (kg)	27.1	25.7	24.1	<.0001
Chronic Conditions (Range: 0–8)	2.2	1.8	1.8	<.0001
Body Mass Index (kg/m2)	31.5	27.8	29.6	<.0001
	%*	%*	%*
Education
<High School	57.3	48.6	77	<.0001
≥ High School	42.8	51.4	23
Physical Activity
Inactive/Sendentary	26.9	19.8	23.4	<.0001
Active	73.1	80.2	76.6
Smoking
Current	14.2	12.5	9.1
Former	36.8	37.6	35.2
Never	49	49.9	55.7
Number of Traumatic Events Across the Life Course (Mean: 1.7)				<.0001
0	28.2	26	29.5
1	22.6	28	21.7
2	18.4	20.2	20.5
3	15.8	13.1	15
4	7.3	7.4	6.6
5+	7.7	5.3	6.8
Number Traumatic Events At Life Stages
Early childhood trauma (age 0–17 years)				<.0001
0	66.4	63.6	60.2
1	23.5	25.6	27.9
2	8.1	7.9	9.3
3+	2	2.9	2.6
Emerging adulthood trauma (age 18–42 years)				<.0001
0	55.7	60.8	57.4
1	31.5	28.4	29.2
2	10.7	8.1	10.1
3+	2.2	2.8	3.3
Midlife trauma (age 43–67 years)
0	43.8	45.2	46.6	<.0001
1	40.9	37.2	36.4
2	11.9	13.3	11
3+	3.4	4.3	6

**T-tests for continuous variables; X² tests for categorical variables.

*Weighted percentages.