. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2016 May 17;178:45–54. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2016.05.004

Table I.

Baseline characteristics

Characteristics	N = 9722^*
Age (years)	63.9 ± 10.6
Women	5446 (56)
Height (cm)	166 ± 10
Weight (kg)	77 ± 17
Current smoker	1242 (13)
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	130 ± 19
Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	74 ± 10
Hypertension	4964 (51)
Hypertension treatment	3632 (37)
Current diabetes	1032 (11)
Heart failure	100 (1)
Stroke/Transient ischemic attack/thromboembolism	278 (3)
Vascular disease	1188 (12)
Myocardial infarction	372 (4)
CHA₂DS₂-VASc risk score	2.0 ± 1.5
CHARGE-AF risk score	12.0 ± 1.2

N (%) for dichotomous traits and mean ± SD for continuous traits.

There are 4548 unique individuals with 1297, 1328, and 1923 contributing 1, 2, and 3 observations, respectively.