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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Commun. 2015 Apr 13;6:6791. doi: 10.1038/ncomms7791

Table 1. Sample Characteristics.

Clinical Characteristics First Stage
Study Sample
N=647		 Second Stage
Study Sample
N=2327
Age, years 66.9±3.9 54.9±9.8
Female, % 51 53
Body mass index, kg/m2 27.7±4.6 27.4±5.0
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg 135±20 126±19
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg 74±10 75±10
Hypertension, % 56 35
Treatment for hypertension, % 35 19
Total cholesterol, mg/dL 214±38 206±37
HDL cholesterol, mg/dL 49±15 50±15
Total/HDL cholesterol 4.7±1.5 4.5±1.6
Triglycerides, mg/dL* 135 (98,191) 120 (85,178)
Treatment for cholesterol, % 13 7
Fasting glucose, mg/dL 105±32 100±28
Treatment for diabetes, % 4 3
Diabetes, % 10 6
Current smoker, % 14 19
Physical activity index 33.8±5.5 34.7±6.3

Values are shown as means±standard deviation or percentages.

*

Triglyceride values are non-normally distributed and are thus shown as medians (25th, 75th percentiles).