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. 2022 Jun 24;3(4):161–170. doi: 10.1016/j.cvdhj.2022.06.001

Table 1.

Baseline clinical characteristics of UK Biobank sample by predicted heart rate recovery tertile

Clinical characteristic HRRpred tertile
Total sample
Tertile 1
Tertile 2
Tertile 3
N = 56,793 N = 18,931 N = 18,931 N = 18,931
Age, years 57.1 (8.1) 57.8 (8.1) 57.5 (8.1) 56.1 (8.2)
Men, n (%) 27,578 (49%) 10,947 (58%) 8834 (47%) 7797 (41%)
Race, n (%)
 White 51,977 (91%) 17,382 (91%) 17,389 (91%) 17,206 (91%)
 Black 1539 (3%) 507 (3%) 477 (3%) 555 (3%)
 Other 3277 (6%) 1042 (6%) 1065 (6%) 1170 (6%)
Body mass index, kg/m2 27.4 (4.4) 29.2 (4.7) 27.3 (4.1) 25.7 (3.6)
Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg 137 (17) 141 (16) 138 (17) 134 (17)
Hypertension treatment, n (%) 11,131 (20%) 5395 (29%) 3477 (18%) 2259 (12%)
Diabetes mellitus, n (%) 1225 (2%) 722 (4%) 348 (2%) 155 (1%)
Current smoker, n (%) 4708 (8%) 1750 (9%) 1517 (8%) 1441 (8%)
Total cholesterol, mmol/L 5.7 (4.9, 6.4) 5.7 (4.9, 6.5) 5.7 (5.0, 6.5) 5.7 (5.0, 6.4)
HDL cholesterol, mmol/L 1.4 (1.2, 1.7) 1.3 (1.1, 1.6) 1.4 (1.2, 1.7) 1.5 (1.3, 1.8)
Lipid-lowering therapy 10,141 (18%) 4634 (25%) 3243 (17%) 2264 (12%)
Prevalent CVD, n (%) 1521 (3%) 543 (3%) 546 (3%) 432 (2 %)
Prevalent heart failure, n (%) 136 (0.2%) 71 (0.4 %) 43 (0.2%) 22 (0.1%)
Prevalent atrial fibrillation, n (%) 757 (1%) 291 (2%) 262 (1%) 204 (1%)
Resting heart rate, bpm 71 (63, 79) 81 (75, 88) 70 (65, 75) 62 (57, 67)
Observed HRR at 50 seconds, bpm 27 (21, 34) 22 (16, 28) 28 (22, 33) 32 (26, 38)
Predicted HRR at 50 seconds, bpm 28 (25, 31) 23 ( 21, 25) 28 (27, 29) 33 (31, 34)

Data are expressed as n (%), mean (standard deviation), or median (25th, 75th percentile) as appropriate.

CVD = cardiovascular disease; HDL = high-density lipoprotein; HRR = heart rate recovery; HRRpred = predicted HRR from resting electrocardiogram convolutional neural network model.