Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics According to Presence or Absence of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy by any Definition, ARIC, 1987–1989

	Total population (n=14489)	No LVH (n=11656)	LVH (n=2833)	p-value
Age	54.0 (5.7)	53.8 (5.7)	54.8 (5.7)	<0.0001
Sex (% Men)	43.5	41.8	50.4	<0.0001
Race (% Black)	26.0	19.8	51.5	<0.0001
Current cigarette Smoking (%)	26.0	26.9	22.2	<0.0001
Diabetes (%)	11.1	9.4	18.0	<0.0001
Antihypertensive medications (%)	28.4	24.2	45.6	<0.0001
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg	121.1 (18.7)	118.5 (16.9)	131.8 (21.8)	<0.0001
HDL cholesterol, mmol/L	1.3 (0.4)	1.4 (0.4)	1.3 (0.4)	<0.0001
Total cholesterol, mmol/L	5.5 (1.1)	5.5 (1.1)	5.6 (1.1)	0.0002

^*All values are mean (standard deviation) unless otherwise noted

^†Chi-square test of association for percentages, T-test for means

^‡Abbreviations: LVH = left ventricular hypertrophy