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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2014 Mar 17;63(5):934–941. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.02953

Table 1. WHI Baseline Sample Description for the Sample, and By Kidney Cancer Diagnosis Status.

Data are presented as frequency (column percent) for the whole sample and frequency (row percent) for subsamples.

Measures Whole Sample
(N=156,774)
Without
Kidney
Cancer
(N=156,367)
With
Kidney
Cancer
(N=407)
p-
value
Trend
p-value
Age-
adjusted
p-value
Age-
adjusted
trend
p-value
N (% of population) N (%)
Race and Ethnicity Native American 695 (0.44) 692 3 (0.43) 0.485 0.605
Asian 4,022 (2.57) 4,015 7 (0.17)
African American 14,411 (9.19) 14,379 32 (0.22)
Hispanic 6,414 (4.09) 6,400 14 (0.22)
White 131,232 (83.71) 130,881 351 (0.27)
Systolic BP (mmHg) ≤120 60,098 (38.35) 59,985 113 (0.19) <.0001 <.0001 0.0003 0.003
120.1 –130 35,727 (22.80) 35,630 97 (0.27)
130.1 – 140 28,436 (18.15) 28,362 74 (0.26)
140.1 – 150 16,836 (10.74) 16,766 70 (0.42)
150.1 – 160 8,880 (5.67) 8,851 29 (0.33)
> 160 6,730 (4.29) 6,707 23 (0.34)
Diastolic BP (mmHg) <90 149,557 (95.45) 149,179 378 (0.25) 0.023 0.031 0.017 0.017
≥90 7,124 (4.55) 7,096 28 (0.39)
Hypertension Diagnoses None 97,722 (65.9) 97,507 215 (0.22) <.0001 <.0001 0.0002 0.021
Untreated 12,022 (8.11) 11,992 30 (0.25)
Treated 38,535 (25.99) 38,395 140 (0.36)
BMI (kg/m2) 18.5 – 24.9 54,248 (34.60) 54,140 108 (0.20) 0.003 <.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
25.0 – 29.9 54,876 (35.00) 54,732 144 (0.26)
30.0 – 34.9 29,298 (18.69) 29,215 83 (0.28)
35.0 – 39.9 12,017 (7.67) 11,972 45 (0.37)
≥40 6,335 (4.04) 6,308 27 (0.43)
Waist Circumference (cm) ≤75 30,641 (19.60) 30,583 58 (0.19) <.0001 <.0001 <0.0001 0.002
75 – 81.2 31,943 (20.43) 31,878 65 (0.20)
81.3 – 88.1 31,179 (19.94) 31,107 72 (0.23)
88.2 – 97.9 31,231 (19.98) 31,140 91 (0.29)
>97.9 31,341 (20.05) 31,221 120 (0.38)
Smoking at baseline Never 78,833 (50.95) 78,642 191 (0.24) 0.167 0.076 0.085 0.030
Past 65,220 (42.15) 65,045 175 (0.27)
Current 10,678 (6.90) 10,642 36 (0.34)
Diabetes at baseline No 147,350 (94.04) 146,970 380 (0.26) 0.564 0.564 0.669
Yes 9,334 (5.96) 9307 27 (0.29)