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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Res Nurs. 2011 Aug 22;15(1):105–111. doi: 10.1177/1099800411419026

Table 2.

Demographic and Blood Pressure Data (M±SD) for Three Generations of West African Dogon Female Participants

Variable Grandmothers
(n = 65)
Mothers
(n = 67)
Daughters
(n = 67)
Age (years) 60.2 ± 9.5 31.8 ± 7.9 7.6 ± 3.5
BMI (kg/m2) 21.6 ± 3.6 22.9 ± 2.8 15.1 ± 2.3
SBP (mmHg) 133.9 ± 18.8 118.2 ± 13.1 103.3 ± 14.7
DBP (mmHg) 82.5 ± 11.2 78.3 ± 9.7 66.2 ± 12.5