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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2012 Aug 16;43(10):2580–2585. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.663047

Table 1.

Description of the population

Characteristic Overall
(N=162)
White
(N=37)
Black
(N=125)
p
Age 58.9 (12.3) 65.3 (12.3) 57.1 (11.7) <0.001
Male 85 (52.5%) 20 (54.1%) 65 (52.0%) 0.826
Black Race 125 (77.2%) - - -
Body mass index (kg/m2) 28.9 (24.8,
34.7)
26.4 (22.9,
33.3)
30.0 (25.7,
34.9)
0.05*
Married 68 (42.0%) 23 (62.2%) 45 (36.0%) 0.005
Private Health Insurance 92 (56.8%) 23 (62.2%) 69 (55.2%) 0.453
Socioeconomic status middle class or
greater (4 missing)
95 (60.1%) 28 (77.8%) 67 (54.9%) 0.014
Current Smoker 43 (26.5%) 4 (10.8%) 39 (31.2%) 0.014
Cocaine Use (2 missing) 25 (15.6%) 2 (5.6%) 23 (18.6%) 0.059
Hypertension (3 missing) 135 (84.9%) 24 (66.7%) 111 (90.2%) 0.001
Systolic blood pressure 179.9 (34.8) 160.9 (28.6) 185.5 (34.6) <0.001
Diastolic blood pressure 99.8 (23.6) 92.4 (20.6) 102.0 (24.0) 0.029
Mean arterial pressure 126.5 (25.8) 115.2 (21.6) 129.8 (26.0) 0.002
National Institutes of Health Stroke
Scale
6 (3, 13) 6 (3, 13) 6 (3, 12) 0.590*
ICH volume in cc (5 missing) 7.5 (3.2,
20.2)
11.4 (3.6,
29.5)
7.2 (3.1,
16.7)
0.212*
On any antihypertensive medication 88 (55.0%) 14 (37.8%) 74 (60.2%) 0.017
Number of classes of blood pressure
medication
1.2 (1.4) 0.8 (1.1) 1.3 (1.4) 0.066
*

Wilcoxon

Fisher’s exact

Continuous variables presented as mean (standard deviation) or median (inter-quartile range)