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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2009 Mar 19;40(5):1921–1923. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.535427

Table 1.

Baseline characteristic of the follow-up sample who were with no prior history of heart attack or stroke at baseline.

	Males	Females
Sample size	29,279	12,123
Strokes (N)	100	19
Hypertension (%)	5.6	2.1
Hypercholesterolemia (%)	5.9	2.8
Diabetes (%)	0.6	0.3
Age (years)^*	44.8±10.3	38.9±10.1
Education (years)^*	16.5±2.4	15.9±2.4
Aspirin (tablets/wk)^*	2.5±4.9	1.9±4.2
BMI (kg/m²)^*	23.9±2.6	21.3±2.4

^*

mean±SD