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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2017 Dec 19;137(11):1158–1172. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.029536

Table 1.

Clinical Characteristics of FHS and MDCS Participants.

FHS
GWAS
FHS
Exome
Array
MDCS
Nested
Case-Control
MDCS
Case-
Cohort

Number of Individuals 759 746 554 867

Age (years) 56.1 (±9.8) 55.6 (±9.7) 59.0 (±5.7) 58.2 (±6.0)

Female (N,%) 399 (49.6%) 397 (49.3%) 298 (53.8%) 529 (52.4%)

BMI 27.6 (±4.9) 27.6 (±5.0) 27.2 (±4.6) 26.0 (±4.1)

Total Cholesterol (mg/dL) 208 (±38) 208 (±37) 243 (±42) 238 (±41)

Triglycerides (mg/dL) 155 (±109) 155 (±112) 134 (±63) 124 (±69)

HDL Cholesterol (mg/dL) 49 (±15) 49 (±15) 50 (±12) 53 (±14)

LDL Cholesterol (mg/dL) 129 (±34) 129 (±32) 167 (±38) 161 (±38)

Diabetes (N, %) 60 (7.5%) 52 (6.5%) 23 (4.2%) 61 (6.0%)

Treatment for Hypertension (N, %) 286 (35.5%) 276 (34.3%) 132 (23.8%) 214 (21.2%)

Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg) 128 (±20) 128 (±19) 147 (±18) 142 (± 19)

Smoker (N, %) 144 (17.9%) 143 (17.8%) 180 (32.5%) 285 (29.2%)

Characteristics of the participants in the FHS discovery and MDCS validation cohorts who underwent proteomic and genomic profiling. Data represent means (standard deviation) unless otherwise noted.