. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2017 Jan;10(1):e003350. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.116.003350

Table 1.

Characteristics of the study sample by race. All statistics are numbers (percentages) unless otherwise noted.

Variable	Level	Blacks	Whites
Sample size		11,896 (41.2%)	16,991 (58.8%)
Age, years^*		64.0 (9.3)	65.4 (9.5)
Women		7,360 (61.9%)	8,472 (49.9%)
Region	Rest of US	5,821 (48.9%)	7,032 (41.4%)
	Stroke Belt	3,947 (33.2%)	6,054 (35.6%)
	Stroke Buckle	2,128 (17.9%)	3,905 (23.0%)
Hypertension		8,497 (71.4%)	8,610 (50.7%)
Diabetes		3,671 (30.9%)	2,691 (15.8%)
Smoking	Current	2,064 (17.4%)	2,140 (12.6%)
	Never	5,414 (45.5%)	7,639 (45.0%)
	Past	4,418 (37.1%)	7,212 (42.4%)

mean(standard deviation)