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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 17.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2022 Nov 5;147(3):190–200. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061991

Table 4.

Unexplained component of the Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of cardiovascular health differences between racial and ethnic groups, stratified by sex

NH Black vs. NH White Hispanic vs. NH White NH Asian vs. NH White

Male Female Male Female Male Female

Diff. in mean CVH SE Diff. in mean CVH SE Diff. in mean CVH SE Diff. in mean CVH SE Diff. in mean CVH SE Diff. in mean CVH SE
Age 0.91 * 0.22 0.72 * 0.21 0.53 * 0.21 1.09 * 0.19 −0.05 0.27 0.42 * 0.20
Education −0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 −0.04 0.02 −0.03 * 0.02 0.14 0.08 0.31 * 0.05
Income −0.02 0.04 −0.03 0.05 0.06 0.05 −0.03 0.05 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02
Food security 0.60 * 0.18 0.22 0.15 0.28 0.17 0.31 * 0.12 0.50 0.26 −0.12 0.26
Marital status 0.09 * 0.04 0.01 0.01 0.11 0.07 −0.06 0.04 −0.04 0.10 −0.07 0.06
Health insurance −0.13 0.13 −0.02 0.14 −0.04 0.12 0.01 0.12 −0.17 0.24 0.14 0.17
Place of birth 0.84 * 0.21 0.31 0.31 −0.05 0.17 −0.03 0.18 −0.08 0.08 −0.20 * 0.09
Depression 0.01 0.03 −0.02 0.04 −0.05 0.04 −0.06 0.04 −0.05 0.04 −0.06 0.03
Year 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.01

CVH: Cardiovascular health, NH: Non-Hispanic, SE: Standard error. Difference in mean CVH refers to the absolute difference in mean CVH score related to the unexplained component of racial and ethnic differences in CVH associated with each individual-level factor.

*

p<0.05.