Table 1. Participant characteristics and selected cardiovascular variables at rest.
| Variable | APOEε4+ | APOEε4- |
P-value (Effect Size) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | 37 | 50 | |||||
| Sex (M/F) | 13 / 24 | 14 / 36 | |||||
| Age (y) | 63 | ± | 4 | 63 | ± | 4 | 0.848 (0.042) |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| Hispanic | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Non-Hispanic | 37 | 49 | |||||
| Race | |||||||
| African American | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Asian | 0 | 1 | |||||
| White | 36 | 49 | |||||
| Education (y) | 17 | ± | 2 | 17 | ± | 3 | 0.507 (0.145) |
| Height (cm) | 171 | ± | 9 | 168 | ± | 8 | 0.143 (0.321) |
| Weight (kg) | 78 | ± | 15 | 76 | ± | 16 | 0.553 (0.129) |
| Body Mass Index (kg/m2) | 27 | ± | 4 | 27 | ± | 4 | 0.854 (0.040) |
| HR (bpm) | 60 | ± | 9 | 60 | ± | 8 | 0.907 (0.025) |
| Systolic BP (mmHg) | 127 | ± | 17 | 125 | ± | 14 | 0.599 (0.115) |
| Diastolic BP (mmHg) | 76 | ± | 8 | 75 | ± | 8 | 0.385 (0.189) |
| Mean Arterial BP (mmHg) | 93 | ± | 10 | 92 | ± | 9 | 0.457 (0.162) |
| MoCA | 28 | ± | 2 | 28 | ± | 2 | 0.684 (0.089) |
| Family History of Dementia (n, %) | 26, 70 | 34, 68 | |||||
| Controlled Hypertension (n, %) | 6, 16 | 12, 24 | |||||
Values expressed as mean ± SD. APOE, apolipoprotein; BP, blood pressure; HR, heart rate; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment. P-value indicates result of independent samples t-test comparing APOEε4 positive (APOEε4+) and APOEε4 negative (APOEε4-) adults. Effect size calculated using Cohen’s d.