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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2020 Apr 7;186:109435. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109435

Table 1.

Demographic, socioeconomic and health characteristics of the study population.

Variable Category Number Percent
All 186 100%
Sex Female 125 67.2%
Male 61 32.8%
Race White 106 57.0%
African American 66 35.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native 1 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander 4 2.2%
Other or mixed 8 4.3%
Not reported 1 0.5%
Ethnicity Hispanic 13 7.0%
Not Hispanic 173 93.0%
Education Did not graduate from high school 13 7.0%
High school 29 15.6%
Some college, no degree 34 18.3%
Associate degree 13 7.0%
Bachelor’s degree 55 29.6%
Post baccalaureate degree 42 22.6%
Smoking status Current smoker 49 26.3%
Not a current smoker 136 73.1%
Not reported 1 0.5%
BMI category Obese 53 28.5%
Overweight 50 26.0%
Normal 80 43.0%
Underweight 3 1.6%