Cardiovascular Disease Burden in Persons with Mental Illness: Comparison between a U.S. Psychiatry Outpatient Sample and a U.S. General Population Sample

Table 2

Baseline characteristics of the PCARES sample and the NHANES sample.

Characteristics	PCARES ()	NHANES ()^†
	Mean (SE)
Age	42.36 (0.28)	46.84 (0.34)
BMI	30.38 (0.15)	29.17 (0.15)
PHQ-9 Score	10.64 (0.13)	3.12 (0.06)
	(%)
Annual household income^‡ (≥$75,000)	319 (9.00)	3008 (37.70)
≥ High school education^‡ (%, SE for PCARES)	90.14 (0.07)	8929 (84.40)
Females	2251 (63.30)	6077 (51.84)
Residence in urban municipality	3008 (86.09)	N/A
Non-Hispanic White	2874 (84.45)	4330 (64.43)
Non-Hispanic Black	199 (5.85)	2450 (11.48)
Other race-including multiracial	330 (9.70)	4879 (24.07)
Single	1594 (46.19)	3000 (26.62)
Married	1383 (40.08)	5669 (54.84)
Widowed/divorced/separated	474 (13.74)	2388 (18.52)
Commercial/private insurance	2009 (56.67)	4771 (60.33)
Other insurance (Medicaid/Medicare)	1536 (43.33)	4551 (39.66)

PCARES results reflect the primary baseline study window (February 1, 2015 to three months after the index date). PHQ-9 score was available for only 2842 persons in the PCARES cohort. ^†NHANES results are weighted means or proportions and, in this table, are not adjusted to the demographic characteristics of the PCARES sample. ‡Education and income are at the zip code level for PCARES and individual level for NHANES. ^§Abbreviations: PCARES: Penn State Psychiatry Clinical Assessment and Rating Evaluation System; NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; SE: standard error; N/A: not available.