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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2011 Feb 8;4(2):145–155. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.110.957563

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics

Cohort Penn-CC Cohort cases n=695 Penn-CC Cohort controls n=1038 Penn-RC n=2752 MONICA/KORA n=1544 GRAPHIC n= 2020
Ascertainment Physician referral, HDL>90th percentile Physician referral, HDL<30th percentile Community-based, prospective cohort Community-based, prospective cohort Family--based, population cohort
Mean Age (years) 57.82 ± 14.75 60.00 ± 12.66 54.72 ± 10.10 52.49 ± 10.49 39.32 ± 14.50
Female Gender (%) 48.9 38.8 33.8 44.4 49.5
Mean HDL (mg/dl) 90.12 ± 20.57 35.06 ± 6.24 49.00 ± 13.51 55.65 ± 16.73 55.80 ± 14.18
Range HDL (mg/dl) 60-186 20-50 9-164 2-142 19.5-124.8

Values with ‘±’ are means ± standard deviation; Penn, University of Pennsylvania; CC, Case-Control; RC, Replication Cohort