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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Genet. 2018 Oct 1;50(11):1514–1523. doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0222-9

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of black, white, and Hispanic individuals passing quality control in the Million Veteran Program

Basic Demographics Genotyped Veterans
N 312,571
Age at Enrollment ± SD, years 62.4 ± 13.5
Male, n (%) 287,441 (92.0%)
Body Mass Index ± SD, kg/m2 30.3 ± 6.0
Current Smoker, n (%) 59,385 (19.0%)
Former Smoker, n (%) 159,459 (51.0%)
N with ≥ 1 Measurement of Plasma Lipids, (%) 297,626 (95.2%)
Number of Lipid Measurements, (Median Per Lipid Fraction) 15,456,328 (12)
Race/Ethnicity
Black, n (%) 59,007 (18.9%)
White, n (%) 227,817 (72.8%)
Hispanic, n (%) 25,747 (8.1%)
Cardiometabolic Disease at Enrollment*
Coronary Artery Disease, n (%) 67,912 (21.7%)
Type 2 Diabetes, n (%) 92,079 (29.5%)
Peripheral Artery Disease, n (%) 21,418 (6.9%)
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, n (%) 5,618 (1.8%)
Deep Venous Thrombosis or Pulmonary Embolism, n (%) 7,009 (2.2%)
*

Diseases are defined by International Classification of Disease, Ninth Edition (ICD-9) diagnosis codes.

Abbreviations: SD, Standard Deviation