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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2015 Feb 19;25(7):480–485. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2015.02.010

Table 1.

Means and (standard deviations) for continuous measures and % for categorical variables by gender and total sample

Measures Total sample
(N = 15823)
Men
(n = 6316)
Women
(n =9507)
Age (years) 41.34 (14.99) 40.55 (14.82) 42.07 (15.11)
Education
 <High School 33.02 32.47 33.53
 High school graduate 28.62 30.67 26.73
 Some college 22.26 20.66 23.73
 College degree 16.10 16.20 16.01
Annual family income ($)
 <20,000 42.44 38.49 46.06
 20,000-50,000 36.77 39.63 34.15
 >50,000 11.44 14.50 8.63
 Not reported 9.36 7.38 11.17
Waist circumference (cm) 97.37 (14.50) 98.27 (14.14) 96.55 (14.77)
SBP (mmHg) 120.00 (17.27) 123.50 (15.06) 116.80 (18.50)
DBP (mmHg) 72.22 (10.89) 73.62 (10.93) 70.94 (10.70)
Triglycerides (mg/dL) 133.90 (118.87) 149.10 (150.69) 120.00 (76.87)
HDL-C (mg/dL) 48.42 (12.76) 44.75 (11.45) 51.77 (12.88)
Fasting glucose (mg/dL) 102.10 (33.35) 104.70 (34.45) 99.68 (32.11)
Cigarette use
 Never 61.46 51.12 70.93
 Previous smoker 17.37 22.14 13.00
 Current smoker 21.17 26.75 16.07
Medication use
 Antihypertensive .131 12.2 13.8
 Lipid lowering .093 8.6 10.0
 Glucose lowering .084 7.9 8.9
CHD 5.95 6.64 5.32
Diabetes 15.72 15.04 16.35