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There were mixed results for the study hypotheses. First,racial disparities were observed on 3 of the 6 healthoutcomes, with African Americans reporting a greaternumber of poor health days, more hospitalizations, anda greater number of days hospitalized (generally supportinghypothesis 1). The magnitude of these disparities wassmall from the standpoint of variation explained usingregression, but the differences were clinically significant.For instance, African Americans averaged more than 2poor health days in the last month and nearly 2 daysmore per year in the hospital.Gender was largely unrelated to health outcomes,although women did report a greater number ofnonroutine physician visits. This does not necessarilyindicate differences in health per se, but could also reflectdifferences in likelihood of seeking medical advice. Weanticipated women would report a greater number ofpoor emotional health days based on previous findings ofa greater incidence of depressive symptoms, but this wasnot the case. Therefore, hypothesis 2 was not supported.
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