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. 2017 Jul 17;13(7):e1006871. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006871

Table 1. Characteristics of fibroid cases and controls in the Vanderbilt University Synthetic Derivative (SD) and CARDIA.

Participants Synthetic Derivativea P CARDIAb P
All cases All controls All cases All controls
Continuous Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Age 45.9 (11.5) 39.5 (16.1) <0.0001 42.3 (3.6) 41.9 (3.8) 0.028
BMI 32.4 (9.7) 30.4 (8.7) <0.0001 30.9 (7.6) 28.9 (8.2) 0.0001
Categorical N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Race <0.001 <0.001
 Black 1,309 (32.7) 2,573 (20.8) 398 (65.6) 147 (33.0)
 White 2,698 (67.3) 9,783 (79.2) 209 (34.4) 299 (67.0)
BMI <0.001 <0.001
 <25kg/m2 846 (21.1) 3,728 (31.2) 144 (23.7) 182 (40.8)
 25–30 kg/m2 1,048 (26.2) 3,318 (26.8) 179 (29.5) 99 (22.2)
 30–35 kg/m2 867 (21.6) 2,360 (19.1) 128 (21.1) 80 (17.9)
 >35 kg/m2 1,246 (31.1) 2,950 (23.9) 156 (25.7) 85 (19.1)
Participants BioVUc CARDIAd
AA GWAS Cases AA GWAS Controls AA GWAS Cases AA GWAS Controls
Continuous Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Age 40.6 (10.9) 41.7 (15.5) 0.144 40.0 (3.7) 39.0 (4.2) 0.763
BMI 33.4 (8.8) 31.8 (8.5) 0.001 32.9 (7.9) 31.4 (8.3) 0.380
Average European Ancestry (%) 17.5 (10.1) 19.2 (12.5) 0.008 14.8 (9.7) 17.5% (11.5) 0.112
Categorical N (%) N (%) 0.009 N (%) N (%)
BMI 0.054
 <25kg/m2 83 (15.4) 141 (20.3) 33 (12.5) 36 (24.7)
 25–30 kg/m2 137 (25.4) 201 (29.0) 76 (28.8) 41 (28.1)
 >30 kg/m2 319 (59.2) 352 (50.7) 155 (58.7) 69 (47.3)

a Includes all eligible participants at Vanderbilt Synthetic Derivative (SD) with or without GWAS data;

b Eligible CARDIA participants with or without GWAS data;

c Subset of African Americans in the SD with available GWAS data;

d Subset of African Americans in CARDIA with available GWAS data; AA = African Americans