. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 5.

Published in final edited form as: Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2007 Nov 1;28(1):173–179. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.107.153981

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of CHS participants in this study

Characteristic	Whites	African Americans
Number of individuals	3849	673
Male	1575 (41)	243 (36)
Age, mean (SD), y	72.7 (5.6)	72.9 (5.7)
BMI, mean (SD), kg/m²	26.3 (4.5)	28.5 (5.6)
Smoking, current	423 (11)	113 (17)
Diabetes	511 (13)	151 (23)
Impaired fasting glucose	522 (14)	92 (14)
Hypertension	2110 (55)	490 (73)
LDL cholesterol, mean (SD), mg/dL	130 (36)	129 (36)
HDL cholesterol, mean (SD), mg/dL	54 (16)	58 (15)
Total cholesterol, mean (SD), mg/dL	212 (39)	210 (39)

Data presented as number of participants (%) unless otherwise indicated.