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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2019 Oct 15;12(10):e005114. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.005114

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the case and control cohorts.

All patients Cases Controls
N=34,502 N=4,370 N=30,132
Demographics
 Gender (% male) 50.3% 51.0% 50.3%
 Race (% white) 67.4% 65.7% 67.6%
 Race (% black) 1.7% 3.5% 1.5%
Social History
 Smoking (% smoker) 3.4% 4.7% 3.3%
 Alcohol use (% used) 45.5% 34.7% 46.7%
Vital Signs
 Systolic blood pressure (mean) 128.9 128.6 129.0
   Diastolic blood pressure (mean) 73.5 71.5 73.8
 Pulse (mean) 73.5 74.9 73.3
 Respirations (mean, per minute) 16.7 17.3 16.6