. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2012 Apr 16;36(4):384–391. doi: 10.1002/gepi.21632

Table 1.

Characteristics of non-diabetic participants included in fasting glucose and fasting insulin GWAS analyses, by race/ethnicity, MESA

	European Americans (CAU) (n=2349)	Chinese (CHN) (n= 664)	African American (AFA) (n= 1366)	Hispanic (HIS)(n=1171)
Age (years)	62.5 (10.3)	61.7 (10.4)	61.8 (10.2)	60.7 (10.3)
BMI (mg/kg/m²)	27.5 (4.9)	23.8 (3.3)	29.8 (5.6)	29.0 (4.8)
Fasting glucose (mg/dl)	87.7 (9.9)	91.5 (10.0)	90.2 (10.6)	90.9 (10.7)
% female	53.2	51.4	54.9	52.0
*Recruitment site*
% Winston-Salem, NC	21.6	0	26.1	0.3
% New York NY	8.3	0.3	17.8	33.6
%Baltimore, MD	20.2	0	30.7	0
%Minneapolis, MN	23.5	0	0	31.2
% Chicago, IL	21.1	36.1	16.3	0
% Los Angeles, CA	5.3	63.5	9.2	35.0

Mean (sd)