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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Jun 9;75(22):2769–2780. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.04.027

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of study populations.

Study characteristics Partners Healthcare Biobank
(N = 13,667)
Penn Medicine Biobank
(N = 9,070)
Mt. Sinai BioMe Biobank
(N = 24,371)
Age 60 (17) 68 (14) 57 (18)
Female gender, n (%) 7,523 (55.0%) 3,711 (41.0%) 13,961 (57.3%)
Genetic ancestry
 African (AFR) 867 (6.3%) 1927 (21.2%) 6,979 (28.6%)
 Ad Mixed American (AMR) 799 (5.9%) ----- 7,048 (28.9%)
 East Asian (EAS) 167 (1.2%) ----- -----
 European (EUR) 11,725 (85.8%) 7143 (78.8%) 10,344 (42.4%)
 South Asian (SAS) 109 (0.8%) ----- -----
Body mass index, kg/m2 31.5 (8.3) 29.3 (6.8) 28.3 (6.9)
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg 127 (16) 126 (19) 127 (20)
Smoking status, ever, n (%) 4,807 (35.2%) 4,366 (48.1%) 4,251 (17.4%)
Hypertension, n (%) 7,272 (46.9%) 6,632 (73.1%) 9,322 (38.3%)
Diabetes Mellitus, n (%) 2,966 (21.7%) 2,868 (31.6%) 5,204 (21.4%)
Coronary Artery Disease, n (%) 3,538 (25.9%) 4,658 (51.4%) 2,824 (11.6%)
Peripheral Artery Disease, n (%) 1,427 (10.4%) 1,736 (19.1%) 1,679 (6.9%)
Cerebrovascular disease, n (%) 1,439 (10.5%) 649 (7.2%) 862 (3.5%)
Total Cholesterol, mg/dL 177 (42) 175 (40) 179 (45)
LDL-C, mg/dL 97 (34) 99 (33) 100 (37)
HDL-C, mg/dL 56 (19) 50 (16) 57 (23)
Triglycerides, mg/dL 120 (65) 141 (83) 144 (77)

Values are presented as mean (standard deviation) unless otherwise noted. Abbreviations: HDL-C = high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C = low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.