Table 1.

Means for Baseline Variables by Race/Ethnicity and Gender Group (N=9011)^ab

	White		Black		Mexican American
	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
Hypertension	.32	.29 * †	.50 *	.56 * †	.25 *	.33 †
Age	55.73	55.73	55.75	55.70	55.28 *	55.20 *
Early Life Social Origins
Family was Poor	.24	.23	.32 *	.32 *	.37 *	.38 *
Mother had ≥ H.S. Education	.45	.40 * †	.21 *	.18 *	.09 *	.05 *
Father had ≥ H.S. Education	.39	.35 * †	.18 *	.15 *	.06 *	.07 *
Adult Socioeconomic Status
Years of Education	12.91	12.56 * †	11.03 *	11.52 * †	7.93 *	7.31 *
Earnings	$29,245	$22,606 * †	$18,031 *	$12,599 * †	$12,670 *	$9,110 * †
Social Security Income	$469	$975 * †	$686 *	$886 * †	$503	$824 * †
In the Labor Force	.81	.62 * †	.65 *	.61 * †	.69 *	.40 * †
Net Worth	$198,718	$189,844	$55,957 *	$44,095 * †	$42,384 *	$49,575 * †
Uninsured	.11	.15 * †	.21 *	.21 *	.43 *	.48 *
Unmarried	.18	.25 * †	.41 *	.59 * †	.25	.35 * †
Health-Related Behaviors
Obese (BMI ≥ 30)	.20	.21	.24 *	.41 * †	.25	.33 * †
Ever Smoked	.74	.56 * †	.73	.56 * †	.79	.43 * †
Currently Smokes	.27	.26	.39 *	.24 * †	.30	.21 * †
Heavy Drinker (3+ Drinks/Day)	.09	.02 * †	.11 *	.01 * †	.11	.01 * †
Controls
Foreign-Born	.05	.05	.05	.05	.41 *	.43 *
Been to a Doctor	.75	.83 * †	.77 *	.86 * †	.58 *	.69 †
Been to the Hospital	.11	.09 * †	.16 *	.15 *	.12	.09
Measurement Occasions	5.75	5.99 * †	5.19 *	5.71 †	5.58	5.79
Died during Observation	.16	.10 * †	.28 *	.17 †	.13	.13
N	3344	3510	697	944	254	262

^aMeans for dummy variables can be interpreted as the proportion of the sample coded 1 on that indicator

^bWelch-Satterthwaite t-tests computed for difference in means with unequal variances;

^*p < .05 for comparison of racial/ethnic/gender group to White Men

^†p < .05 for comparison between men and women within racial/ethnic groups