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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2009 Feb 18;2(2):151–158. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.108.823245

Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the SardiNIA cohort (overall, and stratified according to the phase of genotyping), and of the Old Order Amish study cohort.

SardiNIA
Old Order Amish
Overall Initial GWAS Stage 2
N=6,049 N=4,221 N=1,828 N=826
Age (years) 43.7±17.6 43.1±17.4 44.1±16.9 46.4±15.1
Sex (male) 2569 (42.5%) 1841 (43.6%) 728 (39.8%) 443 (53.6%)
Smoking (ever) 1237 (20.3%) 850 (20.1%) 387 (21.2%) 211 (25.5)
Height (cm) 159.9±9.1 159.9±9.0 160.1±9.1 167.1±8.8
Weight (kg) 64.9±13.3 64.8±13.3 65.0±13.2 73.8±12.7
BMI (kg/m2) 25.3±4.7 25.3±4.7 25.3±4.6 26.4±4.3
Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg) 125±18 125±18 125±18 120±15
Diastolic Blood Pressure (mmHg) 77±11 77±11 77±11 75±9
Heart Rate (beats/min) 67±11 67±11 68±11 64±9
PWV (cm/sec) 670±217 669±209 672±207 547±143
Total cholesterol (mg/dL) 209±43 208±42 210±42 210±47
Triglycerides (mg/dL) 88±68 87±68 89±69 72±44
LDL (mg/dL) 127±36 127±35 127±36 139±42
HDL (mg/dL) 64±15 64±15 64±15 56±15
Fasting glucose (mg/dL) 90±23 90±23 90±25 87±10
Creatinine (mg/dL) 0.8±0.2 0.8±0.2 0.8±0.2 0.8±0.2
Antihypertensive medications 752 (12.4%) 544 (12.2%) 208 (11.4%) 18 (2.2%)

Data are expressed as Mean±SD or N (%)