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Race and age distributions for the members of the Seattle-Puget
Sound and Connecticut study cohorts. Values are numbers
(percentages)
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| Characteristic |
Seattle-Puget Sound
(n=94 900)
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Connecticut (n=120 621)
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| Race: |
|
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| White |
88 863 (93.6) |
114 785 (95.2) |
| African-American |
1 963 (2.1) |
3
882 (3.2) |
| Other |
4 074 (4.3) |
1 954 (1.6) |
| Age (years) in
1987: |
|
|
| 65-69 |
43 249 (45.6) |
53 310 (44.2) |
| 70-74 |
31 544 (33.2) |
41 167 (34.1) |
| 75-79 |
20 107 (21.2) |
26 144 (21.7) |
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