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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Heart Fail. 2016 Dec 21;5(3):157–165. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2016.10.011

Table 1.

Participants characteristics according to race

Blacks
n=1286		 Whites
n=4441		 p value
Age, y 75.0 ± 4.9 76.1 ± 5.1 < 0.001
Women, n(%) 854 (66) 2523 (57) < 0.001
Height, cm 165 ± 9 165 ± 10 0.96
Weight, kg 83 ± 18 77 ± 17 < 0.001
Body mass index, kg/m2 30 ± 7 28 ± 5 < 0.001
Body surface area, m2 1.90 ± 0.21 1.84 ± 0.22 < 0.001
Hypertension, n(%) 1209 (94) 3545 (80) < 0.001
Anti-hypertensive use, n(%) 1117 (87) 3127 (71) < 0.001
Diabetes mellitus, n(%) 607 (47) 1521 (34) < 0.001
Current smokers, n(%) 86 (7) 249 (6) 0.21
CHD, n(%) 117 (9) 680 (16) < 0.001
Heart failure, n(%) 73 (6) 160 (4) < 0.001
Systolic BP, mmHg 135 ± 19 129 ± 17 < 0.001
Diastolic BP, mmHg 70 ± 11 65 ± 10 < 0.001
Pulse pressure, mmHg 65 ± 16 64 ± 14 0.07
Heart rate, bpm 64 ± 11 62 ± 10 < 0.001

BP – blood pressure; CHD – coronary heart disease