Table 2.
Participants' characteristics
| Variables | N | Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. |
| Original FHS-Time1 | Original FHS-Time2 | Corrected FHS-Time1* | Corrected FHS-Time2 | ||||||
| AGE | 2458 | 50.6 | 13.0 | 58.0 | 13.0 | - | - | - | - |
| BMI | 2337 | 27.6 | 5.3 | 29.0 | 5.6 | - | - | - | - |
| WAIST | 2334 | 96.7 | 14.9 | 99.3 | 16.0 | - | - | - | - |
| GLUC | 1877 | 97.1 | 23.1 | 100.0 | 21.4 | - | - | - | - |
| HDLC | 2417 | 50.1 | 14.5 | 48.8 | 14.3 | 50.0 | 14.5 | 48.1 | 14.3 |
| TG | 2419 | 148.9 | 100.3 | 144.1 | 92.1 | 149.2 | 100.9 | 151.2 | 97.8 |
| SBP | 2330 | 116.0 | 17.0 | 121.2 | 20.3 | 118.9 | 20.0 | 126.4 | 23.6 |
| DBP | 2330 | 69.0 | 9.7 | 69.7 | 9.8 | 71.1 | 11.3 | 73.4 | 11.4 |
| Ratio smokers | |||||||||
| vs. non-smokers | - | 0.41 | - | 0.26 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ratio males | |||||||||
| vs. females | - | 0.82 | - | 0.82 | - | - | - | - | - |
*The value of a trait was corrected if a participant used medication for improving the profile of lipids/of BP (see Methods)