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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2012 Aug 18;224(2):435–439. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.08.007

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of white participants free of coronary heart disease, according to 9p21 genotype, ARIC

9p21 rs10757274
Characteristic AA AG GG
Baseline (1987-89) measures n=2612 n=4900 n=2365
    Male, % 45.7 44.7 44.5
    Age 45-54 y, % 53.1 52.1 52.7
        55-64 y, % 46.9 47.9 47.3
    Diabetes, % 7.9 8.1 8.2
    Obese (BMI ≥30), % 23.2 20.9 20.7
    Current cigarette smoker, % 25.5 25.0 24.6
    Hypertension, % 26.6 25.5 25.2
    Hypercholesterolemia, % 64.2 63.4 63.0
    Framingham 10-year CHD risk ≥5%, % 28.2 27.4 26.1
    Carotid Intima Media Thickness (mm), median 0.70 0.70 0.69
    Carotid plaque, % 33.6 33.7 34.3
Visit 2 (1990-92) measures n=2401 n=4467 n=2156
    HbA1c (%), median 5.4 5.4 5.4
Visit 4 (1996-98) measures n=1878 n=3444 n=1663
    C-reactive protein (mg/L), median 2.2 2.1 2.2
    Troponin T (μg/L), median 0.004 0.004 0.004
    NT-proBNP (pg/mL), median 71.3 70.7 68.8
    LpPLA2 (μg/L), median 233 233 230
    Cystatin C (mg/L), median 0.80 0.79 0.79