. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Genomics. 2007 Jan 5;89(3):362–369. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2006.11.004

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics expressed as mean ± standard deviation divided by gender.

	Females (n=1338)	Males (n=1189)	P-value^*
Age (years)	48 ± 12	50 ± 12	0.008
Body mass index (kg/m²)	25.8 ± 4.5	25.9 ± 3.4	0.447
Waist-hip ratio	0.82 ± 0.07	0.93 ± 0.07	<0.001
Current smoking	32.2 %	37.0 %	0.011
Diabetes	2.7 %	3.2 %	0.453
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	122 ± 19	131 ± 17	<0.001
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	70 ± 9	76 ± 9	<0.001
Total cholesterol (mmol/l)	5.60 ± 1.10	5.67 ± 1.17	0.071
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)	1.52 ± 40	1.18 ± 0.32	<0.001
Ln tissue type plasminogen activator (ng/ml)	1.13 ± 0.71	1.32 ± 0.80	<0.001
Ln Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (ng/ml)	4.13 ± 0.82	4.37 ± 0.79	<0.001

P-value calculated with student’s t-test for continuous variables and Chi-square test for categorical variables