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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2014 Apr 7;63(6):1212–1218. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.02989

Table 1.

Characteristics of subjects.

Variable Full sample Black White P value
Characteristics of the children at time of enrollment.
N 540 226 314
Male, n (%) 273 (51%) 105 (46%) 168 (54%) 0.107
Age (yrs) (range: 5 -17) 10.6 (3.0) 11.5 (2.9) 10.0 (2.9) <0.001
Systolic BP (mm Hg) 101 (12) 103 (11) 100 (12) <0.001
Systolic BP% 42 (26) 43 (27) 41 (26) 0.448
Diastolic BP (mm Hg) 62 (10) 63 (10) 61 (11) 0.027
Diastolic BP% 52 (26) 52 (25) 51 (26) 0.712
BMI% 63 (28) 70 (28) 58 (28) <0.001
Characteristics of the adults at time of re-enrollment.
N 221 85 136
Male, n (%) 106 (48%) 39 (46%) 67 (49%) 0.626
Age (yr) (range 20 -39) 30.8 (4.2) 29.4 (4.0) 31.6 (4.1) <0.001
Systolic BP (mm Hg) 116 (11) 116 (11) 116 (11) 0.713
Diastolic BP (mm Hg) 74 (10) 74 (11) 74 (10) 0.975
BMI (kg/m2) 29 (8) 31 (8) 28 (8) 0.002
Characteristics of subjects in the intervention study.
N 38 20 18
Male, n (%) 15 (39%) 9 (45%) 6 (33%) 0.463
Age (yr) (range 19 -36) 27.0 (4.9) 27.9 (4.8) 26.1 (5.0) 0.455
Systolic BP (mm Hg) 112 (10) 110 (8) 115 (12) 0.022
Diastolic BP (mm Hg) 68 (8) 68 (8) 69 (8) 0.524
BMI (kg/m2) 27 (6) 28 (5) 25 (6) 0.167