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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2010 Apr 17;3(3):222–229. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.944934

Table 1.

Cohort Specific* and Pooled Prevalence of Cardiac Risk Factors at the Time of the Blood Draw according to Case and Control Status.

Cohort* Case/
Control
n Age (SD)
years
Body mass
index (SD)
kg/m2
History of
prior CVD
N (%)
Current
smoking
N (%)
Diabetes
N (%)
Hypertension
N (%)
High
cholesterol
N (%)
Family
History of MI
N (%)
HPFS case 120 68.0 (7.7) 26.5 (3.8) 50 (41.7 %) 10 (8.9%) 18 (15.0%) 64 (53.3%) 62 (51.7%) 18 (15.0%)
HPFS control 366 67.7 (7.4) 25.7 (3.5) 150 (41.0 %) 36 (10.1%) 24 (6.6%) 131 (35.8%) 163 (44.5 %) 50 (13.7 %)

PHS I case 133 59.8 (8.9) 25.4 (3.0) 34 (25.6 %) 16 (12.0%) 14(10.5%) 63 (47.7%) 14 (11.4%) 20 (15.0%)
PHS I control 391 59.6 (8.8) 24.6 (3.0) 94 (24.0 %) 46 (11.8%) 16 (4.1 %) 97 (25.0 %) 45 (12.5 %) 38 (9.7 %)

PHS II case 75 73.0 (9.0) 26.0 (4.1) 34 (45.3 %) 3 (4.0%) 13 (17.3%) 46 (61.3%) 30 (40.5%) 13 (17.3%)
PHS II control 223 72.9 (8.8) 25.4 (2.9) 100 (44.8 %) 8(3.6 %) 15 (6.7 %) 115 (51.6%) 100 (44.8%) 27 (12.1 %)

NHS case 113 60.8 (6.1) 27.2 (5.4) 48 (42.5 %) 30 (26.6%) 25 (22.1%) 69 (61.1%) 66 (58.4%) 30 (26.6%)
NHS control 327 60.7 (6.1) 26.5 (5.1) 134 (41.0 %) 67 (20.5%) 31 (9.5 %) 149 (45.6 %) 188 (57.5%) 65 (19.9%)

WACS case 37 66.4 (7.1) 29.5 (7.1) 28 (75.7 %) 9 (24.3%) 11 (29.7%) 30 (81.1%) 24 (64.9%) 10 (27.0%)
WACS control 109 66.1 (6.8) 28.9 (6.0) 83 (76.2 %) 27 (24.8%) 19 (17.4 %) 82 (75.2 %) 83 (76.2 %) 39 (35.8 %)

WHS case 38 58.8 (8.5) 26.7 (4.6) 7 (18.4 %) 10 (26.3%) 4 (10.5%) 20 (52.6%) 12 (31.6%) 3 (7.9%)
WHS control 106 58.5 (8.3) 26.9 (5.6) 17 (16.0%) 30 (28.3%) 6 (5.7 %) 38 (35.9 %) 41 (38.7 %) 15 (14.2 %)

Total case 516 64.2 (9.4) 26.5 (4.5) 201 (39.0 %) 78 (15.3%) 85 (16.5 %) 292 (56.7 %) 208 (41.2 %) 94 (18.2 %)
Total control 1522 64.1 (9.2) 25.9 (4.3) 578 (38.0 %) 214 (14.1%) 111 (7.3 %) 612 (40.3 %) 620 (41.6 %) 234 (15.4 %)
*

PHS I, PHSII, HPFS participants are all men. NHS, WHS, and WACS participants are all men

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