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. 2011 May 23;2011:291954. doi: 10.1155/2011/291954

Table 1.

Patient characteristics by race/ethnicity and gender.

Male Female
NHW Asian Chinese NHW Asian Chinese
Indian Indian
N 1,126 213 93 896 82 58
Age (years)M,F 54.1(13.2) 43.1 (8.6) 51.5 (12.7) 56.7 (12.4) 44.2 (8.7) 55 (13.2)
BMI (kg/m2)M 27.0 (3.8) 25.9 (3.7) 25.4 (3.5) 25.9 (4.7) 26.1 (4.7) 23.3 (3.0)
Lipids (mg/dL)
 Total cholesterolF 200 (40) 199 (35) 199 (41) 213 (43) 187 (31) 218 (40)
 LDL cholesterol 123 (35) 123 (30) 120 (37) 124 (38) 110 (27) 129 (36)
 HDL cholesterolMF 52 (13) 45 (10) 51 (12) 66 (18) 53 (13) 65 (17)
 TriglyceridesM 126 (76) 156 (82) 158 (113) 114 (70) 117 (55) 120 (67)
Prevalence (%, events)
 Diabetes 5.6% (63) 9.4% (20) 6.5% (6) 7.2% (64) 19.5% (16) 10.3% (6)
 Cardiovascular diseaseM 19.4% (218) 6.1% (13) 17.2% (16) 14.2% (127) 3.7% (3) 6.9% (4)
 Ischemic heart disease 14.5% (163) 5.2% (11) 15.1% (14) 8.0% (71) 2.4% (2) 6.9% (4)
 Stroke 6.2% (70) 0.9% (2) 4.3% (4) 5.2% (46) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0)
 Peripheral vascular disease 3.6% (40) 0.0% (0) 2.2% (2) 4.8% (43) 1.2% (1) 1.7% (1)

All continuous variables listed as mean (SD).

NHW: Non-Hispanic White.

M,FKruskal-Wallis or Chi-square test P < .0001 for men or women, respectively.

Brown-Mood P < .0001 for significant difference in median between this group and each of the other two racial groups. Both pairs of comparisons are significant.