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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2010 May 3;55(6):1339–1345. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.149609

Table 1.

Baseline levels of hypertension risk prediction model components in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), overall and by race-ethnicity

Participant
Characteristic		 Overall

(n=3,013)		 Caucasian

(n=1,353)		 African
American
(n=595)		 Hispanic

(n=670)		 Asian

(n=395)
Age, years 58.5 (9.7) 59.6 (9.8) 57.8 (9.7) 57.2 (9.5) 58.1 (9.4)
% Women 53 53 53 51 52
SBP, mmHg 114 (13) 114 (13) 117 (12) 114 (13) 112 (14)
DBP, mmHg 69 (9) 68 (9) 71 (8) 69 (9) 69 (9)
BMI, kg/m2 27.2 (5.0) 26.7 (4.6) 29.0 (5.6) 28.7 (4.7) 23.4 (3.1)
BMI category, kg/m2
    % <25 36 40 25 20 72
    % 25 – 29 39 39 39 49 25
    % ≥ 30 24 21 37 32 3
% Current Smoker 15 13 22 17 6
Parental hypertension
    % None 58 60 48 65 54
    % One 34 33 39 29 39
    % Both 8 7 13 6 7

Numbers in table are mean (standard deviation) or percent

Abbreviations: SBP – systolic blood pressure; DBP – diastolic blood pressure; BMI – body mass index.