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Published in final edited form as: J Hypertens. 2012 Nov 1;30(11):2090–7. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e32835837c9

Table 1. Mean (95CI) blood pressure and anthropometric variables by ethnic group.

	white European	black African-Caribbean	South Asian	Other Asian	Other	P^†
	n=1318	n=1545	n=1497	n=352	n=954
% male	50.2	46.9	48.8	46.3	50.9	0.22
Age (years)	9.95 (9.91, 9.99)	9.95 (9.91, 9.99)	9.94 (9.90, 9.98)	9.94 (9.89, 9.99)	9.94 (9.90, 9.98)	0.84
SBP (mmHg)	105.0 (104.4, 105.6)	104.9 (104.3, 105.4)	104.0 (103.3, 104.6)	105.4 (104.2, 106.5)	105.3 (104.6, 106.0)	0.01
DBP (mmHg)	62.3 (61.7, 62.8)	63.2 (62.7, 63.7)	63.5 (62.9, 64.0)	64.0 (63.0, 65.0)	63.1 (62.5, 63.8)	0.003
Height (cm)	139.1 (138.8, 139.5)	143.0 (142.6, 143.3)	138.7 (138.3, 139.0)	138.2 (137.5, 138.9)	140.1 (139.7, 140.5)	<0.001
FMI (kg/m⁵) ^‡	1.75 (1.70, 1.81)	1.81 (1.76, 1.86)	1.87 (1.81, 1.92)	1.88 (1.78, 1.99)	1.81 (1.75, 1.88)	0.02
SS (mm) ^‡	41.3 (40.1, 42.4)	39.9 (38.9, 40.9)	43.2 (42.1, 44.4)	43.0 (40.8, 45.2)	40.9 (39.6, 42.3)	<0.001

Abbreviations: SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, FMI fat mass index, SS sum of skinfolds

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SBP, DBP, height, FMI, SS: p-value for test of heterogeneity among ethnic groups using mixed effects linear regression with adjustment for age, sex, observer, month, time of day (blood pressure), room temperature (blood pressure) and school (random effect); age and sex adjusted for clustering.

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Geometric mean