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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Glob Heart. 2013 Mar 15;8(1):67–75. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2012.12.007

Table 1.

(Source Kannel WB, Wolf PA, Verter J, McNamara PM. Epidemiologic assessment of the role of blood pressure in stroke. The Framingham study. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. Oct 12 1970;214(2):301–310, Table 3, page 1272).

Average of Standardized Mean Deviations of Systolic Blood pressure in Men and Women 38 to 69 years of age developing disease vs. those remaining free of disease.

Coronary Heart Disease
Mean Deviation
 Intermittent Claudication
Mean Deviation
 Cardiovascular Accident
Mean Deviation
 Congestive Heart Failure
Mean Deviation
No. Systolic Diastolic No. Systolic Diastolic No. Systolic Diastolic No. Systolic Diastolic
Men (252) 0.41 0.28 (58) 0.60 0.15 (53) 0.83 0.61 (44) 0.92 0.62
Women (135) 0.68 0.39 (30) 0.23 0.03 (53) 0.81 0.70 (30) 0.93 0.65

Standardized mean deviation=mean pressure of cases−mean pressure of noncasesPopulation standard deviation.

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This table summarizes the age specific mean deviations. The differences between disease categories is not accounted for by differences in age distribution. Mean deviations were not found to vary appreciably with age.