. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 25.

Published in final edited form as: Cerebrovasc Dis. 2014 Mar 25;37(4):244–250. doi: 10.1159/000358117

Table 1. Demographic characteristics and risk factors of participants by race.

Characteristic	AA (n=220)	EA (n=373)	p
Age, mean (SD)	52 (11)	52 (10)	0.098
Total cholesterol (mg/dL), mean (SD)	192 (43)	195 (39)	0.38
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL), mean (SD)	58 (16)	57 (17)	0.36
LDL cholesterol (mg/dL), mean (SD)	115 (39)	114 (37)	0.69
Diabetes	21%	9%	<0.0001
Female sex	64%	55%	0.0398
Smoking currently	24%	13%	0.001
Hypertension	59%	35%	<0.0001
Obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²)	58%	39%	<0.0001
Hypercholesterolemia (LDL ≥ 160 mg/dL)	11%	10%	0.58
Periventricular lesion volume upper quartile	29%	23%	0.087
Total lesion volume upper quartile	31%	22%	0.013
Deep white matter lesion volume upper quartile	33%	21%	0.001

AA = African American; BMI = body mass index; EA = European American; HDL = high-density lipoprotein; LDL = low-density lipoprotein; SD = standard deviation.