Table 3.

VA E-O-ECHO Baseline Characteristics from 1999 to 2020 (n=6,637)

Variable
Age, median (Q1-Q3)	45 (35 – 57)
Sex, n (%)
Male	6,046 (91.1)
Female	591 (8.9)
Ethnicity, n (%)
Hispanic	391 (5.9)
Non-Hispanic	6,032 (90.9)
Unknown	214 (3.2)
Race, n (%) ^
American Indian or Alaska Native	39 (0.6)
Asian	39 (0.6)
Black	559 (8.4)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	38 (0.6)
White	5,614 (84.6)
Unknown	348 (5.2)
BMI, median (Q1-Q3)	29.3 (26.3 – 32.9)
Smoking Status, n (%)
Current	1,215 (18.3)
Former	1,294 (19.5)
Never	3,406 (51.3)
Unknown	722 (10.9)