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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2015 May 19;241(2):400–408. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.05.015

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of subjects in the three groups whose peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) underwent quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR).

Olive Oil EPA DHA
Subject, n 16 16 18
Race (White / Black / Hispanic), n 9 (56%) / 7 (43%) / 0 (0%) 9 (56%) / 6 (38%) / 1 (6%) 11 (61%) / 7 (39%) / 0 (0%)
Female, n 5 (31%) 2 (13%) 5 (28%)
Age, years 49.7 ± 11.0 53.6 ± 8.6 51.6 ± 9.7
Weight, kg 84.0 ± 14.6 86.1 ± 13.2 86.0 ± 18.7
Body mass index (BMI), kg/m2 28.1 ± 4.1 27.5 ± 3.7 27.8 ± 4.4
Waist, cm 94.6 ± 15.2 95.1 ± 12.2 95.4 ± 11.0
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg 126.1 ± 9.6 130.1 ± 14.9 126.1 ± 16.7
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg 81.5 ± 8.0 82.9 ± 11.7 80.8 ± 11.7
Pulse rate, /min 74.9 ± 10.1 70.3 ± 9.7 80.7 ± 13.8

Data shown as mean ± standard deviation. EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid. None of the baseline characteristics differed significantly among the three groups (by Pearson chi-squared test or ANOVA).