. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 17.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2009 Mar 18;103(9):1255–1260. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.01.012

Table 2.

Measurements of target organ damage

	No. of Subjects	African Americans	No. of Subjects	Non-Hispanic Whites	p Value^*
ABI	1,009	0.98 ± 0.14	743	1.11 ± 0.13	<0.001
UACR (mg/g)	1,028	6.9 (3.1–20.6)	834	3.3 (1.7–6.7)	<0.001
LV mass index (g/m^2.7)	1,010	39.0 (33.6–47.1)	—	—	—

Based on distributional properties, variables are presented as mean ± SD or median (interquartile range).

For ethnic differences after adjustment for age and gender.