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Table 3 Health Burden of Black and White Women at Cohort Enrollment: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, 1996–1997

From: Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White women: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)

 

Black Women

White Women

Poor self-reported healtha

16.2%

6.6%

Obese (> = 30 kg/m2)a

51.3%

31.0%

Diabetes Mellitusb

10.7%

4.0%

Metabolic Syndromeb

26.2%

18.4%

Hypertensionb

36.9%

16.2%

Allostatic Load (mean)c

3.7

2.3

  1. an = 916 Black women, 1533 White women [34]; bn = 875 Black women, 1496 White women; Metabolic Syndrome defined as meeting at least 3 of the 5 criteria: triglycerides >  = 150 mg/dL; HDL cholesterol < 50 mg/dL; systolic blood pressure >  = 130 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure >  = 85 mmHg, or on antihypertensive medication; fasting glucose > 10 mg/dL and/or diabetes; and waist circumference >  = 88 cm [65]; cn = 796 Black women, 1399 White women; Allostatic Load defined as the number of 11 biomarkers in the highest risk quartile (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, fasting serum glucose, C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate) [67]
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Women's Midlife Health

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