Age adjusted mean neighbourhood characteristics and personal socioeconomic indicators at baseline in black participants who died and did not die, the cardiovascular health study, 1989–1993
| Black men | Black women | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Died of CVD (n = 40) | Died of other causes (n = 46) | Did not die (n = 235) | p Value death v no death | p Value CVD death v non-CVD death | Died of CVD (n = 41) | Died of other causes (n = 37) | Did not die (n = 458) | p Value death v no death | p Value CVD death v non-CVD death | |
| CVD, cardiovascular disease. *The neighbourhood score was constructed by summing Z scores for six neighbourhood level variables: median household income; median value of housing units; percentage of households receiving interest, dividend or net rental income; percentage adults with complete high school; percentage adults with complete college, and percentage of persons in managerial or professional specialty occupations. | ||||||||||
| Neighbourhood characteristics | ||||||||||
| Neighbourhood score* | −3.5 | −2.7 | −1.8 | 0.02 | 0.21 | −2.9 | −4.1 | −2.7 | 0.16 | 0.13 |
| Median household income ($) | 19900 | 21400 | 23300 | 0.07 | 0.36 | 19200 | 19200 | 21100 | 0.15 | 0.96 |
| Median value of housing units ($) | 48400 | 59200 | 67900 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 54900 | 49900 | 61100 | 0.07 | 0.36 |
| Households with interest, dividends or rental income (%) | 20 | 22 | 26 | 0.03 | 0.65 | 23 | 17 | 22 | 0.36 | 0.06 |
| Adult residents who completed high school (%) | 65 | 68 | 71 | 0.04 | 0.40 | 66 | 62 | 67 | 0.06 | 0.20 |
| Adult resident who completed college (%) | 13 | 14 | 17 | 0.08 | 0.61 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 0.63 | 0.08 |
| Employed residents with executive, managerial, or professional occupation (%) | 17 | 19 | 21 | 0.05 | 0.48 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 0.29 | 0.18 |
| Individual characteristics | ||||||||||
| Annual income ⩾$25000 | 12 | 36 | 30 | 0.35 | 0.02 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 0.33 | 0.53 |
| Complete college (%) | 15 | 20 | 19 | 0.81 | 0.57 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 0.29 | 0.61 |
| Executive/managerial/professional/administrative lifetime occupation (%) | 22 | 31 | 31 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 19 | 21 | 29 | 0.1 | 0.8 |