There were three main aims, all of which had epidemiologic and cardiovascular disease health policy prevention implications: Aim 1: Characterize the distribution of hospitalized versus non-hospitalized SES sub-cohorts according to level of C.D. knowledge, physiologic risk factor prevalence, and clinical morbidity prevalence. Aim 2: Test the hypothesis that morbidity differences between hospitalized SES sub-cohorts would vary as a function of baseline level of cardiovascular disease knowledge and risk factor prevalence. Aim 3: Test the hypothesis that morbidity would rise among hospitalized lower SES sub-cohorts, resulting in widening health status disparities by the end of the study period. Parametric and nonparametric analytic methods were used, including analysis of variance and covariance, and various regression techniques.