. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2016 Apr;35(4):407–411. doi: 10.1037/hea0000242

Table 2.

Heart disease death rates, age-standardized, for Blacks and Whites, aged 25–64, 2001

Education	Blacks	Whites	B/W Ratio	B-W Difference
Men
All	194.9	100.7	1.94	94.2
<12 years	262.9	214.9	1.22	48
12 years	258.2	145.2	1.78	113
13–15 years	120	73.1	1.64	46.9
16+ years	99.2	51.1	1.94	48.1
Low-High Difference	164	164
Low/High Ratio	2.65	4.21
Women
All	106.1	37.9	2.8	68.2
<12 years	132.9	97.8	1.36	35.1
12 years	142.1	50.1	2.84	92
13–15 years	73	25.1	2.91	47.9
16+ years	62.8	16.9	3.72	45.9
Low-High Difference	70	81
Low/High Ratio	2.12	5.79

Rates per 100,000; Jemal et al 2008