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Table 1

Weighted descriptive statistics, by racialized group

	Black	Mexican American	White
Health Measures
Self-rated health	3.10^*	3.26^*	2.67
Cumulative biological risk (latent)	.11^*	.10^*	–.04
Functional limitations	3.37^*	3.10^*	2.53
Mediators
Education (years)	12.38^*	11.06^*	13.32
Income (logged)	10.01^*	9.69^*	10.82
Wealth (logged)	7.26^*	8.50^*	11.26
Chronic stressors	2.96^*	2.64	2.40
Financial strain	2.47^*	2.43^*	1.95
Neighborhood disorder	3.25^*	3.10^*	2.36
Neighborhood mistrust	3.16^*	2.99^*	2.42
Discrim. (everyday)	1.80^*	1.62	1.62
Discrim. (2+ attributions)	.41^*	.26	.21
Discrim. (major)	.86^*	.43	.47
Traumas	1.18	1.16	1.18
Controls
Age	64.28^*	63.31^*	66.32
Female	.60^*	.54	.54
Marital status (1 = married)	.51^*	.76	.75
Private health insurance	.39^*	.29^*	.51
Pharmacotherapy	.87^*	.81	.78
n	7,969	1,620	25,315

	Black	Mexican American	White
Health Measures
Self-rated health	3.10^*	3.26^*	2.67
Cumulative biological risk (latent)	.11^*	.10^*	–.04
Functional limitations	3.37^*	3.10^*	2.53
Mediators
Education (years)	12.38^*	11.06^*	13.32
Income (logged)	10.01^*	9.69^*	10.82
Wealth (logged)	7.26^*	8.50^*	11.26
Chronic stressors	2.96^*	2.64	2.40
Financial strain	2.47^*	2.43^*	1.95
Neighborhood disorder	3.25^*	3.10^*	2.36
Neighborhood mistrust	3.16^*	2.99^*	2.42
Discrim. (everyday)	1.80^*	1.62	1.62
Discrim. (2+ attributions)	.41^*	.26	.21
Discrim. (major)	.86^*	.43	.47
Traumas	1.18	1.16	1.18
Controls
Age	64.28^*	63.31^*	66.32
Female	.60^*	.54	.54
Marital status (1 = married)	.51^*	.76	.75
Private health insurance	.39^*	.29^*	.51
Pharmacotherapy	.87^*	.81	.78
n	7,969	1,620	25,315

Notes: Means for dummy variables can be interpreted as the proportion of the sample coded 1 on that indicator. Values are based on information from respondents' first interview. Welch–Satterthwaite t tests were computed for difference in means with unequal variances.

p < .05 for comparison of racial group to Whites

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