Table 1.

JHS characteristics by GSS tertiles (n = 4967)

	GSS (low) (n = 2052)	GSS (moderate) (n = 1662)	GSS (high) (n = 1253)	p value
	Mean ± standard deviation
Age	60.37 ± 11.54	53.27 ± 11.98	49.68 ± 12.37	< 0.001
BMI	31.37 ± 6.63	31.81 ± 7.37	32.36 ± 7.84	0.03
Stress	3.50 ± 3.62	5.29± 4.08	7.48 ± 4.67	< 0.001
	N (%)
Females	1294 (41.37%)	1011 (32.32%)	823 (26.31%)	0.03
High school graduate	1502 (37.70%)	1424 (35.74%)	1058 (26.56%)	< 0.001
Poor	229 (36.94%)	152 (24.52%)	239 (38.55%)	< 0.001
Current smoker	214 (33.44%)	197 (30.78%)	229 (35.78%)	< 0.001
Alcohol use	792 (32.72%)	805 (35.29%)	684 (29.99%)	< 0.001
Hypertension	1298 (46.09%)	904 (32.10%)	614 (21.80%)	< 0.001
Diabetes	507 (46.56%)	331 (30.39%)	251 (23.05%)	< 0.001
History of CVD	268 (50.0%)	146 (27.24%)	122 (22.76%)	< 0.001
CKD	135 (51.72%)	71 (27.20%)	55 (21.07%)	0.002

p values were obtained using chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis tests as appropriate

Because of the high frequencies in some of the discrete responses of the GSS scale, the tertiles were not equal