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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 25.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2008 Aug 25;70(7):781–786. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181817be6

TABLE 1.

Demographics and Descriptive Statistics for Self-Reported Hypertension

MZ(n = 4301) DZ (n = 3414)
Age, mean ± SD 41.12 ± 3.12 41.09 ± 2.77
Education, mean ± SD, y 13.95 ± 2.04 13.75 ± 2.05
Race, n (%)
 Caucasian 4061 (94.49) 3226 (94.55)
 African 217 (5.05) 177 (5.19)
 Hispanic 2 (0.05) 2 (0.06)
 Other 18 (0.42) 7 (0.21)
Married, n (%) 3829 (89.69) 3078 (90.64)
Hypertension, n (%)
 None 3476 (80.82) 2785 (81.58)
 Yes 575 (13.37) 432 (12.65)
 Medicated 250 (5.81) 197 (5.77)

MZ = monozygotic; DZ = dizygotic; SD = standard deviation.