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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Rhythm. 2008 Mar 14;5(6):814–821. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.03.016

Table 3.

Table 3A: Baseline Characteristics of HERS Subjects by β1AR49 and β1AR389 Genotype
β1AR49 Genotype
(N=2172)
β1AR389 Genotype
(N=2139)
Characteristic Ser49/Ser49
(N=1641)
Ser49/Gly49
(N= 477)
Gly49/Gly49
(N= 54)
p value Arg389/Arg389
(N=1124)
Arg389/Gly389
(N= 827)
Gly389/Gly389
(N= 188)
p value
Age (years) 66.4 ± 6.6 66.5 ± 6.6 67.1 ± 6.2 0.73 66.6 ± 6.6 66.3 ± 6.6 66.1 ± 6.4 0.36
Race 0.63 <.0001
 Caucasian 1500 (91.4%) 424 (88.9%) 46 (85.2%) 1049 (93.3%) 732 (88.5%) 157 (83.5%)
 Afr-Am 96 (5.9%) 38 (8.0%) 6 (11.1%) 41 (3.7%) 71 (8.6%) 27 (14.4%)
 Hispanic 26 (1.6%) 9 (1.9%) 2 (3.7%) 22 (2.0%) 12 (1.5%) 3 (1.6%)
 Other 19 (1.2%) 6 (1.3%) 0 12 (1.1%) 12 (1.5%) 1 ( 0.5%)
Diabetes 357 (21.8%) 99 (20.8%) 9 (16.7%) 0.61 237 (21.1%) 180 (21.8%) 46 (24.6%) 0.55
Prior MI 843 (51.4%) 234 (49.1%) 27 (50.0%) 0.67 581 (51.7%) 422 (51.0%) 87 (46.3%) 0.39
Current smoker 190 (11.6%) 61 (12.8%) 8 (14.8%) 0.62 124 (11.0%) 107 (12.9%) 23 (12.2%) 0.43
History of CHF 191 (11.6%) 54 (11.3%) 3 (5.6%) 0.38 121 (10.8%) 103 (12.5%) 24 (12.8%) 0.45
On β blocker at baseline 538 (32.8%) 159 (33.3%) 20 (37.0%) 0.80 382 (34.0%) 265 (32.0%) 58 (30.9%) 0.54
Hypertension 563 (34.3%) 160 (33.5%) 18 (33.3%) 0.95 394 (35.1%) 284 (34.3%) 50 (26.6%) 0.075
Table 3B: Baseline Characteristics of HERS Subjects by β2AR16 and β2AR27 Genotype
β2AR16 Genotype
(N=2134)
β2AR27 Genotype
(N=2129)
Characteristic Gly16/Gly16
(N= 837)
Gly16/Arg16
(N= 989)
Arg16/Arg16
(N= 308)
p value Gln27/Gln27
(N= 742)
Gln27/Glu27
(N=1010)
Glu27/Glu27
(N= 377)
p value
Age (years) 66.5 ± 6.7 66.5 ± 6.5 66.4 ± 6.6 0.97 66.3 ± 6.6 66.4 ± 6.5 67.0 ± 6.6 0.28
Race <.0001 <.0001
 Caucasian 779 (93.1%) 887 (89.7%) 267 (86.7%) 624 (84.1%) 938 (92.9%) 364 (96.6%)
 Afr-Am 41 (4.9%) 74 (7.5%) 24 (7.8%) 74 (10.0%) 58 (5.7%) 9 (2.4%)
 Hispanic 12 (1.4%) 21 (2.1%) 4 (1.3%) 23 (3.1%) 12 (1.2%) 2 (0.5%)
 Other 5 (0.6%) 7 (0.7%) 13 (4.2%) 21 (2.8%) 2 (0.2%) 2 (0.5%)
Diabetes 166 (19.9%) 226 (22.9%) 72 (23.5%) 0.22 164 (22.1%) 224 (22.2%) 75 (20.0%) 0.64
Prior MI 419 (50.1%) 505 (51.1%) 168 (54.6%) 0.40 389 (52.4%) 509 (50.4%) 188 (49.9%) 0.62
Current smoker 103 (12.3%) 121 (12.2%) 37 (12.0%) 0.99 92 (12.4%) 122 (12.1%) 44 (11.7%) 0.94
History of CHF 89 (10.6%) 117 (11.8%) 41 (13.3%) 0.43 88 (11.9%) 124 (12.3%) 35 (9.3%) 0.29
On β blocker at baseline 275 (32.9%) 326 (33.0%) 100 (32.5%) 0.99 245 (33.0%) 336 (33.3%) 121 (32.1%) 0.92
Hypertension 293 (35.0%) 335 (33.9%) 108 (35.1%) 0.86 240 (32.4%) 349 (34.5%) 135 (35.8%) 0.45