TABLE 2.

Characteristics of VAGES and SAFDS participants for whom both phenotypic and genotypic data were available

Variable	VAGES	SAFDS
n	1,026	537
Age at examination (years)	49.6 ± 13.1	42.1 ± 16.8
Female subjects (%)	65.9	58.3
Diabetic subjects (%)	68.6	24.6
BMI (kg/m2)	33.2 ± 8.0	30.2 ± 6.6
ln BMI*	3.5 ± 0.2	3.4 ± 0.2
Plasma triglycerides (mg/dl)†	159 ± 136	180 ± 135

Data are means ± SD or percent.

^*ln = log transformed.

^†Plasma triglyceride values were transformed for the genetic analysis using inverse normal transformation.