. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2011 Aug 31;4(5):549–556. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.111.960393

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of women and men in whom coronary heart disease developed during follow-up and matched controls in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS).^*

	HPFS		NHS

Characteristic	Cases	Controls	Cases	Controls
N	425	878	464	945
Age, years	64.5 (8.6)	64.2 (8.5)	60.2 (6.3)	59.8 (6.3)
Women, %	0%	0%	100%	100%
Hypertension, ^† %	37.2%	29.0%	50.2%	27.3%
Diabetes, ^† %	9.0%	3.8%	14.4%	6.24%
Current smoker, %	9.7%	8.7%	27.8%	26.1%
Total cholesterol, mg/dL	5.5 (1.0)	5.2 (1.0)	6.1 (1.0)	5.9 (1.0)
HDL cholesterol, mg/dL	1.1 (0.3)	1.2 (0.3)	1.3 (0.4)	1.6 (0.4)
Triglyceride, mg/dL	1.8 (1.5)	1.5 (2.2)	1.6 (1.0)	1.3 (0.7)
BMI, kg/m²	26.0 (3.2)	25.6 (3.3)	26.0 (6.6)	24.5 (5.8)

Age and smoking were matching factors. Values are means and standard deviation of continuous covariates (except triglyceride levels which is reported as median and IQR) or percentages. Triglyceride levels were log-transformed before analysis and only reported in fasting participants (HPFS= 65%, NHS= 79%).

^†

Self-reported diagnosis before blood draw.