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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Cardiol. 2016 Aug 1;1(5):568–574. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.1324

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of Participants by Intervention Group

Description Physical Activity Successful Aging
N=818 N=817
Age at Randomization, years, mean (SD) 78.7 (5.2) 79.1 (5.2)
Women, n (%) 547 (66.9) 551 (67.4)
Race: White, n (%) 604 (73.8) 635 (77.7)
Education: College or Higher, n (%) 515 (63.0) 529 (65.1)
Lower Extremity Short Physical 353 (43.2) 378 (46.3)
  Performance Battery (SPPB) <8, n (%)
3MSE: Total Score (max=100), mean (SD) 91.5 (5.5) 91.6 (5.3)
Cardiovascular Disease, n (%) 236 (28.9) 254 (31.1)
  Myocardial Infarction, n (%) 60 (7.4) 69 (8.5)
  Stroke, n (%) 57 (7.0) 52 (6.4)
  Heart Failure, n (%) 26 (3.2) 45 (5.6)
  Other Self-Report CVD, n (%) 157 (19.2) 163 (20.0)
Framingham Risk Score, mean (SD) 10.1 (7.3) 10.1 (7.3)
Hypertension, n (%) 573 (70.5) 578 (71.5)
Diabetes, n (%) 199 (24.4) 216 (26.6)
Past Smoker, n (%) 381 (47.2) 341 (42.7)
Current Smoker, n (%) 26 (3.2) 24 (3.0)
Total Cholesterol, mg/dl mean (SD) 179.3 (39.6) 178.5 (39.9)
LDL Cholesterol, mg/dl mean (SD) 93.6 (32.2) 93.1 (33.1)
HDL Cholesterol, mg/dl mean (SD) 61.1 (18.0) 61.1 (17.6)