Table 2.

Baseline characteristics by allostatic load burden (low, medium and high) among males and females

	Male (N=709)					Female (N=810)
	Total	Low (n=181)	Medium (n=455)	High (n=73)	P value	Total	Low (n=231)	Medium (n=534)	High (n=45)	P value
Age, years, mean±SD	80.5±11.3	77.6±10.7	81.0±11.4	84.1±11.0	0.042	90.2±11.8	87.0±13.0	91.3±11.1	93.6±11.0	0.029
Married*, No (%)	446 (62.9%)	125 (69.1%)	276 (60.7%)	45 (61.6%)	0.137	173 (21.4%)	65 (28.1%)	101 (18.9%)	7 (15.6%)	0.010
Han ethnicity, No (%)	638 (89.9%)	168 (92.8%)	402 (88.4%)	68 (93.2%)	0.152	719 (88.8%)	210 (90.9%)	471 (88.2%)	38 (84.4%)	0.354
Any education, No (%)	457 (64.5%)	119 (65.8%)	294 (64.6%)	44 (60.3%)	0.707	108 (13.3%)	50 (21.7%)	55 (10.3%)	3 (6.7%)	0.000
Smoking, No (%)					0.418					0.800
Current smoker	265 (37.3%)	71 (39.2%)	170 (37.4%)	24 (32.9%)		30 (3.7%)	6 (2.6%)	23 (4.3%)	1 (2.2%)
Past smoker	109 (15.4%)	22 (12.2%)	71 (15.6%)	16 (21.9%)		16 (2.0%)	5 (2.2%)	11 (2.1%)	0
Non-smoker	335 (47.3%)	88 (48.6%)	214 (47.0%)	33 (45.2%)		761 (94.3%)	219 (95.2%)	498 (93.6%)	44 (97.8%)
Exercise, No (%)	183 (26.2%)	55 (30.6%)	110 (24.6%)	18 (25.0%)	0.300	154 (19.3%)	41 (18.1%)	103 (19.5%)	10 (22.2%)	0.782
Hypertension, No (%)	125 (17.8%)	0	97 (21.6%)	28 (38.9%)	0.000	179 (22.6%)	0	153 (29.3%)	26 (57.8%)	0.000
Diabetes, No (%)	13 (1.8%)	3 (1.6%)	4 (0.9%)	6 (8.3%)	0.001	12 (1.5%)	0	10 (1.9%)	2 (4.4%)	0.013
Heart disease, No (%)	42 (5.9%)	10 (5.5%)	27 (6.0%)	5 (6.9%)	0.921	62 (7.8%)	10 (4.5%)	40 (7.6%)	12 (26.7%)	0.000
Stroke, No (%)	33 (4.7%)	8 (4.4%)	18 (4.0%)	7 (10.0%)	0.105	45 (5.7%)	14 (6.2%)	29 (5.5%)	2 (4.4%)	0.878
Pulmonary, No (%)	74 (10.5%)	18 (10.0%)	45 (9.9%)	11 (15.3%)	0.374	49 (6.2%)	10 (4.4%)	38 (7.2%)	1 (2.2%)	0.181
Arthritis, No (%)	96 (13.6%)	18 (10.0%)	64 (14.2%)	14 (19.2%)	0.132	128 (16.0%)	44 (19.2%)	79 (15.0%)	5 (11.1%)	0.224
Cancer, No (%)	2 (0.3%)	1 (0.6%)	1 (0.2%)	0	0.591	6 (0.8%)	0	5 (1.0%)	1 (2.2%)	0.133

*Married versus widowed, never married and divorce.