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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Biomed Sci Instrum. 2014;50:210–218.

Table 1.

Sample n’s, means and standard deviations by gender and zygosity for resting and standing hemodynamic data.

Monozygotic Twins Dizygotic Twins

M(SD) Male Female MZ Total Male Female DZ Total
n(pairs) 37 62 99 41 67 108
Age (yrs) 45.86 (15.73) 47.50 (14.46) 46.90 (14.92) 47.27 (11.76) 46.54 (13.21) 46.83 (12.64)

SBP (mmHg)
Baseline 134.30 (17.47) 127.18 (19.11) 129.80(18.80) 134.63 (18.20) 131.97 (19.94)a* 133.00 (19.29)b*
Orthostasis 137.64 (19.39) 128.90 (18.56) 132.15 (19.30) 136.04 (18.53) 133.54 (19.17)a* 134.51 (18.93)

DBP (mmHg)
Baseline 80.75 (11.75) 78.49 (11.51) 79.32 (11.62) 82.37 (11.45) 82.75 (12.40)a** 82.60 (12.02)b**
Orthostasis 85.63 (10.51) 82.80 (11.44) 83.85 (11.16) 87.97 (13.11) 88.04 (13.88)a** 88.01 (13.55) b**

MAP (mmHg)
Baseline 107.52 (13.30) 102.83 (14.04) 104.56 (13.92) 108.50 (13.82) 107.36 (15.00)a** 107.80 (14.54)b**
Orthostasis 102.97 (11.75) 98.17 (12.69) 99.95 (12.53) 103.99 (13.80) 103.20 (14.41)a** 103.51 (14.15)b**

COest (L/min)
Baseline 7.75 (2.39) 7.26 (2.17) 7.44 (2.26) 7.91 (2.72) 7.50 (2.4) 7.65 (2.53)
Orthostasis 8.42 (2.94) 7.41 (2.33) 7.79 (2.62) 8.32 (3.45) 7.52 (2.41) 7.84 (2.88)

TPRest (mmHg.s/ml)
Baseline 0.82 (0.23) 0.83 (0.22) 0.83 (0.22) 0.81 (0.20) 0.86 (0.23) 0.84 (0.22)
Orthostasis 0.81 (0.26) 0.88 (0.42) 0.85 (0.37) 0.84 (0.29) 0.90 (0.30) 0.88 (0.30)

SBP = Systolic Blood Pressure, DBP = Diastolic Blood Pressure, MAP = Mean Arterial Pressure, mmHg = millimeters of Mercury, COest = estimated Cardiac Output, L/min = liters per minute, TPRest = estimated Total Peripheral Resistance, mmHg.s/ml = millimeters of Mercury per second per milliliter,

a

= between-zygosity, within-gender comparison,

b

= between-zygosity comparison,

*

p ≤.05,

**

p ≤.01.