Table 1.

Baseline Patient Characteristics

	European-American	African-American	p-value
Age (years), mean ± SD	50.2 (16.1)	48.1 (11.8)	0.11
Female (n, %)	140 (49.7%)	140 (67%)	<0.01
Coronary artery disease (n, %)	41 (14.5%)	6 (2.8%)	<0.01
Diabetes (n, %)	65 (23.0%)	97 (46.1%)	<0.01
Hypertension (n, %)	69 (24.4%)	68 (32.5%)	0.05
Hyperlipidemia (n, %)	71 (25.2%)	53 (25.4%)	1.00
Study 1	31 (10.9%)	9 (4.3%)	<0.01
Study 2	106 (37.6%)	112 (53.5%)	0.67
Study 3	145 (51.4%)	88 (42.1%)	0.05

Continuous variables are displayed as mean ± standard deviation. Categorical variables are displayed as number of participants ‘n’ (percentage of group).

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation