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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Comparative genome-wide association studies of a depressive symptom phenotype in a repeated measures setting by race/ethnicity in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

 

MESA1

HRS2

n = 6,335

n = 10,163

 

European American

African American

Hispanic American

Chinese American

European American

African American

n = 2,514

n = 1,603

n = 1,443

n = 775

n = 8,652

n = 1,511

 

Mean

(SD)

Mean

(SD)

Mean

(SD)

Mean

(SD)

Mean

(SD)

Mean

(SD)

Depression score3

           

Baseline CES-D4

8

(7.8)

7.6

(7.6)

9.9

(9.2)

6.3

(6.6)

1.2

(1.8)

1.2

(1.8)

Averaged CES-D

8.7

(7.4)

7.8

(6.7)

10.2

(8.5)

6.2

(5.6)

1.2

(1.3)

1.9

(1.6)

Age

62.6

(10.2)

62.2

(10.1)

61.4

(10.3)

62.4

(10.4)

58.4

(8.8)

56.8

(8.2)

Sex (%)

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

Male

1207

48.0

744

46.4

711

49.3

385

49.7

3,556

41.1

639

42.3

Site (%)

            

Baltimore, MD

505

20.1

482

30.1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Chicago, IL

526

20.9

258

16.1

-

-

275

35.4

-

-

-

-

Forsyth County, NC

548

21.8

425

26.5

3

0.2

-

-

-

-

-

-

Los Angeles, CA

133

5.3

143

8.9

554

38.4

498

64.3

-

-

-

-

New York, NY

209

8.3

295

18.4

431

29.9

2

0.3

-

-

-

-

St. Paul, MN

593

23.6

-

-

455

31.5

-

-

-

-

-

-

Anti-depressant Use (%)

307

12.2

61

3.8

84

5.8

19

2.5

-

-

-

-

Intraclass correlation

         

Repeated Measures CES-D

0.60

 

0.44

 

0.57

 

0.57

 

0.48

 

0.51

 
  1. 1Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2Health and Retirement Study, 3CES-D measured as 20-item sum in MESA and as 8-item sum in HRS, 4Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression