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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Metabolism. 2015 Sep 30;65(1):36–47. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2015.09.020

Table 1.

Biometric and quantitative data (mean±SD) of the entire American white (NHWs) and African black samples

Variable
Mean±sd or percentage		 NHWs (n=623) African Blacks (n=788)
Males/Females (%) 47.35/52.64 62.81/37.18
Age (Yrs) 52.83 ± 11.41 40.95±8.39
BMI (kg/m2) 25.51 ± 4.06 22.87±4.04
LDL-C (mg/dl) 136.9 ± 40.8 109.25±34.40
HDL-C (mg/dl) 50.8 ± 14.4 47.88±12.87
TG (mg/dl) 142.72 ± 93.5 72.96±39.32
TC (mg/dl) 217.0 ± 43.5 172.01±38.47

TC: Total cholesterol; LDL-C: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C; High-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG: Triglycerides