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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2016 Jun 7;251:422–429. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2016.05.049

Table 1. Baseline characteristics, predicted ABO types and diplotypes, and protein measurement summaries of MESA participants.

Reported as N (%) or mean ± SD.

Characteristics African
American
Chinese
American
Non-Hispanic
White
Hispanic
American
p-valuea
N (All participants with ABO) 1581 747 2453 1411
Age (years) 62.1 ± 10.1 62.2 ± 10.4 62.6 ± 10.2 61.4 ± 10.3 0.005
Sex (female) 832 (53.8) 383 (51.2) 1287 (52.1) 733 (51.9) 0.59
Body mass index (kg/m2) 30.2 ± 5.8 24.0 ± 3.3 27.7 ± 5.0 29.5 ± 5.1 <1e-08
ABO <1e-08
 Type O 795 (50.3) 289 (38.7) 1057 (42.9) 806 (57.1)
 Type A 420 (26.6) 194 (26.0) 1053 (42.9) 434 (30.8)
  A1/A1 23 (1.5) 29 (3.9) 111 (4.5) 24 (1.7)
  A2/A2 4 (0.3) 0 (0) 5 (0.2) 1 (0.1)
  A1/A2 22 (1.4) 0 (0) 74 (3.0) 14 (1.0)
  A1/O 238 (15.1) 165 (22.1) 614 (24.9) 307 (21.8)
  A2/O 133 (8.4) 0 (0) 249 (10.1) 88 (6.2)
 Type B 286 (18.1) 199 (26.6) 255 (10.4) 138 (9.8)
  B/B 28 (1.8) 22 (2.9) 19 (0.8) 7 (0.5)
  B/O 258 (16.3) 177 (23.7) 236 (9.6) 131 (9.3)
 Type AB 80 (5.0) 65 (8.7) 98 (4.0) 33 (2.3)
  A1/B 53 (3.4) 65 (8.7) 71 (2.9) 25 (1.8)
  A2/B 27 (1.7) 0 (0) 27 (1.1) 8 (0.6)
vWF
 N 175 95 440 218
 Mean ± SD 155.7 ± 62.1 134.4 ± 53.40 135.3 ± 54.4 134.8 ± 52.1 0.0005
sE-selectin (ng/mL)
 N 176 95 439 219
 Mean ± SD 59.0 ± 27.3 53.7 ± 28.6 49.0 ± 21.1 62.7 ± 27.1 <1e-08
sP-selectin (ng/mL)
 N 541 620 637 608
 Mean ± SD 28.4 ± 9.1 27.9 ± 8.6 28.5 ± 9.4 31.8 ± 9.8 <1e-08
sICAM-1 (ng/mL)
 N 489 581 599 573
 Mean ± SD 248.4 ± 83.0 228.1 ± 76.3 251.8 ± 77.3` 259.8 ± 96.4 <1e-08
a

p-values comparing results across race/ethnicity from Kruskal-Wallis tests for continuous variables or χ2 tests for categorical variables.