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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2019 Jun 29;30(10):2073–2078. doi: 10.1007/s00198-019-05048-w

Table 1:

Descriptive characteristics of the CHS population at the 1992/93 visit. We provide mean +− standard deviation for continuous variables and percentages for categorical variables.

Total Women Men
5265 3099 2166
Age (years) 75.13 ±5.51 74.84 ±5.39 75.55 ±5.67
Black Race 16.8% 18% 15.1%
Good Health 77.4% 76.2% 79.2%
Education(>=12 gr) 44.8% 41.4% 49.7%
Diabetes 16.5% 14.6% 19.3%
ADL difficulty 11.8% 14% 8.6%
Fall 16.2% 19.6% 11.3%
Systolic BP (mmHg) 136.6 ±21.66 137.46 ±21.92 135.38 ±21.24
Diastolic BP (mmHg) 71.28 ±11.59 70.38 ±11.57 72.56 ±11.49
Glucose (mg/dL) 108.47 ±35.61 106.9 ±35.6 110.64 ±35.52
Insulin (mIU/L) 14.29 ±24.12 14.05 ±23.56 14.61 ±24.88
Current smoking 9.8% 10.1% 9.5%
Cystatin C eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m2) 72.53 ±19.03 74.83 ±19.19 69.31 ±18.32