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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2010 Mar 29;55(5):1283–1288. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.148619

Table 1.

Baseline study characteristics stratified by level of plasma 25(OH)D.

Characteristic ≥30 ng/mL (N=37) 15-29.9 ng/mL (N=108) <15 ng/mL (N=39) p-value
Age, years 42.2 (9.5) 40.0 (12.2) 38.2 (13.5) 0.15
Black, % 0 5 55 <0.001
Female, % 59 50 51 0.49
BMI, kg/m2 25.8 (4.2) 25.3 (3.7) 25.1 (4.3) 0.41
Systolic BP, mmHg 111 (12) 110 (12) 114 (10) 0.21
Diastolic BP, mmHg 66 (8) 66 (8) 71 (6) 0.006
24-hr urine sodium, mmol 241 (87) 217 (78) 225 (79) 0.43
Basal RPF, ml/min/1.73m2 575 (125) 590 (143) 572 (97) 0.99

Continuous variables are expressed as mean (standard deviation); categorical variables are expressed as %.

P-values were determined by univariate linear regression (for continuous variables), or the chi-square test (for categorical variables).