Table 1.

Racial differences in baseline plasma natriuretic peptides levels in young healthy blacks and whites.

	Whites	Blacks β (95% CI)	% Difference	p-value
Plasma NTproBNP
Unadjusted	Reference	−0.72 (−1.09 to −0.35)	−51%	<0.001
Age, sex, BMI, Insulin	Reference	−0.63 (−0.98 to −0.28)	−47%	0.001
Plasma BNP
Unadjusted	Reference	−0.33 (−0.54 to −0.12)	−28%	0.002
Age, sex, BMI, Insulin	Reference	−0.35 (−0.57 to −0.13)	−30%	0.002
Plasma MRproANP
Unadjusted	Reference	−0.20 (−0.37 to −0.03)	−18%	0.02
Age, sex, BMI, Insulin	Reference	−0.20 (−0.37 to −0.02)	−18%	0.03