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.