Table 3.

Age, BMI, and erythrocyte ion transport in French-Canadian and African-American men and women with essential hypertension: correlation analysis

	NKCC	Passive permeaility for K+	NKCC	Passive permeability for K+
	French-Canadian men		African-American men
Age	r = 0.066	r = −0.222	r = 0.139	r = −0.215
	P = 0.49	P = 0.02	P = 0.51	P = 0.30
BMI	r = 0.186	r = −0.073	r = −0.315	r = 0.14
	P = 0.05	P = 0.45	P = 0.12	P = 0.51
	French-Canadian women		African-American women
Age	r = −0.057	r = −0.026	r = 0.067	r = 0.145
	P = 0.56	P = 0.78	P = 0.67	P = 0.35
BMI	r = 0.165	r = −0.154	r = −0.059	r = 0.438
	P = 0.09	P = 0.12	P = 0.71	P = 0.03

Correlations with P < 0.05 appear in boldface.

BMI, body mass index; NKCC, Na⁺,K⁺,2Cl⁻ co-transport.