. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 4.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Hypertens. 2009 Aug 6;22(10):1096–1100. doi: 10.1038/ajh.2009.139

Table 1. Characteristics of 1,994 Study Participants.

	Probands	Siblings	Offspring	Spouses	Parents
No. of subjects	638	921	192	61	182
Age, years	40.7 ± 8.2	39.5 ± 7.7	23.5 ± 6.7	48.7 ± 6.5	55.5 ± 3.7
Male, %	61.1	50.6	46.4	32.8	44.8
BMI, kg/m²	24.2 ± 3.3	23.1 ± 2.9	21.5 ± 3.3	23.7 ± 3.7	23.6 ± 3.5
SBP, mm Hg	129.3 ± 12.1	114.3 ± 12.7	110.6 ± 12.3	117.0 ± 17.1	128.3 ± 21.4
DBP, mm Hg	80.6 ± 9.7	72.2 ± 9.8	66.6 ± 9.4	74.2 ± 11.2	75.6 ± 12.0

Data presented are mean ± standard deviation values, unless otherwise stated.