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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2008 Dec 24;300(24):2859–2866. doi: 10.1001/jama.2008.867

Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants versus non-participants as well as at-risk participants (ie, baseline scan negative) with follow-up scans versus those without; mean(SD) and percent(number). Columns are compared by t-test and Fisher’s exact test where appropriate.

Eligible for Sleep Subtudy Participants with Zero Baseline Calcification
Non-participants Participants p-value Rescanned Not rescanned p-value
N 144 670 495 72
Self-Reported Sleep (hr) 6.5(1.4) 6.5(1.2) .745 6.5(1.2) 6.5(1.4) .574
Measured Sleep (hr) - 6.1(1.1) - 6.1(1.0) 6.1(1.3) .925
Baseline Calcification Prevalence 9.9%(13) 7.6%(47) .378 - - -
Followup Calcification Incidence 14.5%(11) 12.3%(61) .597 12.3%(61) - -
Race-Sex Groups .002 .292
 White Male 30.6%(44) 26.4%(177) 25.7%(127) 38.5%(20)
 Black Male 26.4%(38) 16.1%(108) 15.6%(77) 23.6%(17)
 White Female 17.3%(25) 27.9%(198) 30.1%(149) 26.4%(19)
 Black Female 25.7%(37) 29.6%(187) 28.7%(142) 22.2%(16)
Age 39(3.7) 40(3.6) .048 40(3.5) 39(3.9) .042
Current Smokers 20.8%(30) 21.0%(141) .999 18.2%(90) 27.8%(20) .078
High Density Lipoprotein (mg/dl)* 50(15) 51(15) .690 52(15) 48(12) .023
Low Density Lipoprotein (mg/dl)* 115(32) 113(32) .458 111(30) 118(34) .114
Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg) 112(13) 111(14) .492 110(14) 112(12) .355
Diagnosed Diabetes 7.6%(11) 10.6%(29) .072 4.4%(22) 5.6%(4) .841
Framingham Ten-Year Risk% 1.6(1.8) 1.8(2.6) .394 1.7(2.3) 2.1(3.7) .215
*

1 mmol/l high-density or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol= 39 mg/dl