Table 3.
Baseline characteristics of ARIC Study participants (N = 15 430) by Gothenburg score, 1987–1989a
| Baseline characteristics | Gothenburg score |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| (N = 9268; 60%) | (N = 2726; 18%) | (N = 2798; 18%) | (N = 638; 4%) | |
| Age (years) | 54.0 (5.7) | 53.9 (5.7) | 54.6 (5.8) | 55.5 (5.6) |
| African American | 24.8 | 27.8 | 29.6 | 37.8 |
| Female | 46.7 | 69.1 | 67.4 | 72.4 |
| Current smoker | 25.7 | 19.5 | 32.4 | 31.0 |
| Current alcohol consumer | 60.5 | 49.9 | 49.4 | 41.6 |
| ≤ High school education | 52.5 | 56.8 | 64.1 | 68.6 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 26.9 (4.6) | 28.2 (5.7) | 29.1 (6.3) | 31.1 (6.8) |
| SBP (mm Hg) | 120.8 (18.4) | 120.4 (19.2) | 122.8 (19.4) | 125.1 (19.8) |
| DBP (mm Hg) | 73.8 (11.1) | 73.1 (11.5) | 73.5 (11.4) | 74.9 (11.8) |
| Hypertension | 30.5 | 27.2 | 46.1 | 78.5 |
| Diabetes | 9.3 | 10.2 | 17.7 | 27.2 |
| LVH present on ECG | 1.7 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 4.7 |
| Atrial fibrillation on ECG | 0.18 | 0.03 | 0.25 | 0.94 |
| Rales | 0.61 | 0.37 | 1.3 | 0.63 |
| Rhonchi | 3.4 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 6.1 |
ARIC, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study; BMI, body mass index; CHD, coronary heart disease; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; ECG, electrocardiogram; LVH, left ventricular hypertrophy; SBP, systolic blood pressure.
aData are percentages for dichotomous characteristics and means (standard deviation) for continuous variables.