Table 1.
Sex-specific unadjusted baseline characteristics, Minneapolis Field Center, ARIC Study, 1987-89.
| Men |
Women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Number | 1,667 | 1,908 | ||||
| Age | 54.2 | ± | 5.6 | 53.3 | ± | 5.5 |
| Body mass index (kg/m2) | 27.7 | ± | 3.7 | 26.2 | ± | 5.0 |
| Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) | 120.5 | ± | 14.8 | 116.9 | ± | 17.0 |
| Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) | 75.5 | ± | 9.2 | 72.1 | ± | 9.1 |
| Anti-hypertensive medication (%) | 17 | 20 | ||||
| Plasma total cholesterol (mg/dl) | 212 | ± | 39 | 216 | ± | 42 |
| Plasma HDL-cholesterol (mg/dl) | 44 | ± | 12 | 60 | ± | 17 |
| Plasma triglyceride (mg/dl) | 139 | ± | 94 | 116 | ± | 73 |
| Diabetes (%) | 8 | 6 | ||||
| Sports index (range 1-5) | 2.7 | ± | 0.8 | 2.5 | ± | 0.8 |
| Education (>high school graduate, %) |
69 | 51 | ||||
| Current smoking (%) | 21 | 23 | ||||
| Cigarette-years | 405 | ± | 440 | 234 | ± | 334 |
| Alcohol intake (g/wk) | 88.0 | ± | 128.3 | 33.4 | ± | 56.0 |
| Total energy intake (Kcal/d) | 1818 | ± | 622 | 1492 | ± | 499 |
| Fish-oil supplement use (%) | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Hormone therapy use (%) | - | 22 | ||||