Before this reading this article, I had kind of unconsciously attributed health disparities between races to the socioeconomic statuses associated with those races. However, after looking at the data in this article, I realized that SES is only one of the many social factors associated with race. It really surprised me that even when comparing poor white women with poor black women in their rates of hypertension and obesity, there were such great differences. Another really interesting table was the one comparing personal and household incomes of black, white and hispanic women. Black and hispanic women with less education had higher earnings than white women but white women with more education had higher earnings. Additionally, the household incomes of white women were much greater than their personal incomes, indicating that there might be correlations with the dynamics of marriages and the health of their family lives.