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. 2024 Apr 8;5(3):303–313. doi: 10.1093/ehjdh/ztae023

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics for the Yale health system and UK Biobank cohorts

Yale health system cohort UKB cohort
Anatomical Functional SMD Anatomical Functional SMD
Total counts 4020 130 196 581 3320
Type of functional test
 Stress echo 0 (0.0) 33 537 (25.8) 0 (0.0) 1657 (49.9)
 Nuclear MPI 0 59 825 (46.0) 0 (0.0) 1572 (47.3)
 Stress CMR 0 (0.0) 265 (0.2)
 Exercise treadmill test 0 (0.0) 36 569 (28.1) 0 (0.0) 91 (2.7)
Age (years) 58.5 (16.1) 61.0 (14.0) 0.165 66.2 (8.3) 65.9 (7.8) 0.045
Female (sex) 1853 (46.1) 63 506 (48.8) 0.054 262 (45.1) 1621 (48.8) 0.075
Hispanic ethnicity 447 (11.1) 12 687 (9.7) 0.054
Race/ethnic background 0.058 0.082
 White 2991 (74.4) 100 015 (76.8) 548 (94.3) 3101 (93.4)
 Asian 96 (2.4) 3055 (2.3) 15 (2.6) 95 (2.9)
 Black 477 (11.9) 13 750 (10.6) 10 (1.7) 45 (1.4)
 Other/unknown 456 (11.3) 13 376 (10.3) 7 (1.2) 71 (2.1)
 Mixed 1 (0.2) 8 (0.2)
Hypertension 1214 (30.2) 50 178 (38.5) 0.176 298 (51.3) 1472 (44.3)
Diabetes mellitus 306 (7.6) 13 755 (10.6) 0.103 95 (16.4) 489 (14.7) 0.045
Prior ischaemic heart disease (incl. PCI/CABG) 184 (4.6) 8316 (6.4) 0.08 250 (43.0) 1380 (41.6) 0.03
Prior AMI 43 (1.1) 1215 (0.9) 0.014 9 (1.5) 19 (0.6) 0.095
Stroke 174 (4.3) 3823 (2.9) 0.074 52 (9.0) 122 (3.7) 0.218
CKD 58 (1.4) 2612 (2.0) 0.043 47 (8.1) 183 (5.5) 0.103
PAD 3 (0.1) 54 (0.0) 0.014 14 (2.4) 47 (1.4) 0.073
Active smoking 8 (0.2) 422 (0.3) 0.024 70 (12.0) 412 (12.4) 0.011
Former smoking 124 (3.1) 3919 (3.0) 0.004 253 (43.5) 1398 (42.1) 0.029
Total cholesterol (mg/dL) 177 (47) 179 (44) 0.049 209 (47) 211 (50) 0.032
HDL (mg/dL) 53 (19) 55 (19) 0.086 52 (15) 52 (14) 0.007
BMI (kg/m2) 29.3 (6.6) 30.0 (7.0) 0.102 28.4 (5.0) 28.8 (5.2) 0.083
Beta-blockers 1245 (31.0) 36 994 (28.4) 0.056 103 (17.7) 689 (20.8) 0.077
Statin use 1184 (29.5) 51 389 (39.5) 0.212 214 (36.8) 1353 (40.8) 0.081
Anti-platelet use 629 (15.6) 30 054 (23.1) 0.189 187 (32.2) 1219 (36.7) 0.095

Variables are summarized as mean (standard deviation) or counts (valid percentages, %) as appropriate.

AMI, acute myocardial infarction; BMI, body mass index; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; CKD, chronic kidney disease; MPI, myocardial perfusion imaging; PAD, peripheral arterial disease; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; SMD, standardized mean difference; UKB, UK Biobank.