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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2010 Apr;159(4):698–704. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.12.031

Table 2.

Characteristics according to race-ethnicity

All
(n=2085)
White
(n=441)
Hispanic
(n=1179)
Black
(n=465)
P value
Age 68.2±9.7 72.9±9.8 65.6±8.5 70.3±10.0 <0.0001
Male sex 824 (39.5) 191 (43.3) 475 (40.3) 158 (34.0) 0.01
Height, cm 162.5±10.1 164.6±10.9 160.7±9.3 164.8±10.2 <0.0001
Weight, kg 73.2±15.6 70.6±16.9 73.0±13.8 76.2±17.9 <0.0001
BMI 27.7±5.4 25.9±5.2 28.2±4.8 28.1±6.3 <0.0001
Ever smoke 1121 (54) 261 (59) 590 (50) 270 (58) 0.0004
Current smoke 346 (17) 61 (14) 182 (16) 103 (22) 0.001
Hypertension 1425 (68) 257 (58) 816 (69) 352 (76) <0.0001
Diabetes 461 (22) 62 (14) 282 (24) 117 (25) <0.0001
Coronary artery disease 174 (8.4) 55 (12.5) 87 (7.4) 32 (6.9) 0.002
Total cholesterol, mg/dL 203.7±40.5 207.4±38.8 202.3±41.2 203.6±40.4 0.08
LDL, mg/dL 130.7±35.9 132.9±35.2 130.5±35.9 129.2±36.7 0.3
HDL, mg/dL 46.3±14.6 48.3±14.9 43.3±12.8 52.1±16.3 <0.0001
Homocysteine, μmol/L 9.8±4.2 9.5±2.8 9.5±4.3 10.7±5.1 <0.0001
Creatinine, mg/dL 0.96±0.47 0.96±0.26 0.93±0.53 1.06±0.43 <0.0001
Calcium, mg/dL 9.1±0.49 9.0±0.4 9.0±0.5 9.1±0.5 0.4
Blood glucose, mg/dL 107.0±50.0 100.4±39.3 109.9±54.5 105.9±46.6 0.003
WBC 6.2±1.9 6.3±1.9 6.3±1.8 5.7±2.0 <0.0001
hsCRP, mg/L 5.0±7.6 4.6±9.7 4.8±6.5 5.7±8.1 0.15
SBP, mmHg 144.2±21.0 140.9±20.7 144.1±20.9 147.5±21.1 <0.0001
DBP, mmHg 83.4±11.3 79.3±10.9 84.7±10.8 84.0±11.9 <0.0001

Data are expressed as mean + SD or n (%) of subjects.

Abbreviations as in Table 1.