Research Article

Excessive Daytime Sleepiness among Hypertensive US-Born Blacks and Foreign-Born Blacks: Analysis of the CAATCH Data

Table 1

Comparison of sociodemographic and health risk data of US-born black versus foreign-born black participating in the CAATCH.

Baseline characteristics based on participants' country of origin
VariableUBB (73%)FBB (27%)

Age (mean ± SD)56 ± 1358 ± 13
Female gender (%)71 73
Employed (%)2945*
High school (%)3123*
Alcohol consumption (%)3918*
Smoking history (%)6324*
Body mass index (mean ± SD)31 ± 5.7434 ± 8.01

* . Mean ± SD and (%) is reported.