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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2022 Jun 2;79(8):1656–1667. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.19324

Table 1.

Description of the stage-1 and stage-2 studies and participants.

Study Sample Size BP Measurement Method Mean age* (s.d.) Women, % Ancestry, %
Mean BMI (s.d.) Mean SBP (s.d.) Mean DBP (s.d.) HTN§, % Anti-HTN medicine, %
African Asian European Hispanic Other
Stage-1 Studies
Amish 1,111 Standard sphygmomanometer 50.7 (17.1) 49.7 0.00 0.00 100 0.00 0.00 27.0 (4.6) 120.7 (15.6) 74.3
(9.7)
16.7 5.2
ARIC 6545ǁ Random zero sphygmomanometer 54.1 (5.7) 54.5 9.23 0.00 90.8 0.00 0.00 27.1 (5.0) 119.1 (17.7) 72.2 (10.5) 34.8 27.2
BioMe 3,155 Multiple sphygmomanometers 59.1 (12.9) 63.2 38.3 1.27 21.5 39.0 0.00 29.8 (7.3) 133.1 (25.1) 73.9 (13.6) 67.5 54.5
CARDIA 2,930 Random zero sphygmomanometer 25.1 (3.6) 57.7 45.1 0.00 54.9 0.00 0.00 24.5 (5.0) 110.0 (10.9) 68.5
(9.4)
2.7 0.9
CFS 990 Calibrated sphygmomanometer 41.3 (19.5) 53.5 50.6 0.00 48.9 0.51 0.00 31.8 (9.4) 121.8 (17.0) 74.1 (11.1) 35.9 28.3
CHS 2,839 Random zero sphygmomanometer 72.5 (5.3) 56.4 18.3 0.04 80.5 1.13 0.00 26.8 (4.7) 136.6 (21.6) 70.9 (11.6) 65.9 46.5
FHS 3,615 Desktop baumanometer 38.0 (8.9) 54.1 0.00 0.00 100 0.00 0.00 25.8 (4.8) 119.8 (15.0) 77.4 (10.2) 17.9 4.9
GeneSTAR 1,735 Mercury or aneroid sphygmomanometer 41.5 (11.4) 59.3 44.2 0.00 55.8 0.00 0.00 29.6 (7.1) 120.3 (16.2) 77.8 (10.8) 28.5 15.9
GENOA 1,214 Random zero sphygmomanometer 56.3 (10.6) 70.2 100 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 31.1 (6.6) 134.5 (22.3) 77.8 (12.2) 69.7 57.7
GenSalt 1,818 Random zero sphygmomanometer 38.7 (9.6) 47.3 0.00 100 0.00 0.00 0.00 23.3 (3.2) 117.7 (15.1) 74.3 (11.1) 12.7 0.4
GOLDN 942 Automated Dinamap 47.9 (16.3) 53.0 0.00 0.00 100.0 0.00 0.00 28.3 (5.7) 115.6 (16.8) 68.3
(9.3)
22.9 17.9
HCHS-SOL 1,590 Digital Omron 46.9 (14.4) 62.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.0 0.00 30.7 (6.9) 123.8 (19.0) 74.3 (11.3) 34.3 21.1
HyperGEN 1,880 Automated dinamap 47.0 (12.8) 63.4 100 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 32.0 (7.7) 129.8 (22.5) 74.4 (11.7) 62.9 52.7
JHS 3,307 Random zero sphygmomanometer 55.4 (12.8) 62.6 100 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 31.8 (7.3) 127.2 (16.6) 75.7
(8.8)
59.4 52.0
MESA 4,526 Automated dinamap 61.0 (9.8) 51.4 24.0 13.2 40.4 22.4 0.00 28.2 (5.3) 124.8 (20.5) 71.8 (10.2) 45.6 35.5
Samoan 1,261 Digital Omron 44.6 (11.3) 60.3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100 33.6 (6.7) 128.4 (19.1) 82.0 (13.0) 32.0 7.2
THRV 1,138 Automated dinamap 49.3 (9.5) 53.2 0.00 100 0.00 0.00 0.00 25.2 (3.5) 130.3 (25.2) 77.5 (13.9) 67.6 50.7
WHI 10,860 Mercury sphygmomanometer 66.5 (6.8) 100 13.2 1.85 82.2 2.78 0.00 28.7 (6.1) 132.2 (18.5) 75.7
(9.7)
55.7 39.8
Stage-2 Studies
UK Biobank (GWAS) 383,145 Digital Omron 56.9 (8.0) 54.0 0.00 0.00 100.0# 0.00 0.00 27.4 (4.7) 139.8 (19.8) 83.3 (10.9) 47.0 10.1
UK Biobank (WES) 199,631 Digital Omron 56.5 (8.1) 54.4 0.63 2.50 93.8 0.00 3.1 27.4 (4.8) 137.8 (18.7) 82.2 (10.2) 54.3 21.1
MVP 318,891 Multiple devices 58.6 (12.6) 8.40 18.8 0.80 69.1 6.70 4.6 30.2 (5.8) 138.1
(16.0)
82.6
(11.0)
65.6 48.9
REGARDS 10,643 Aneroid sphygmomanometer 64.4 (9.6) 57.9 83.8 0.00 16.2 0.00 0.0 30.4 (6.6) 130.5 (17.3) 78.1 (10.1) 69.1 62.9

Amish, The Amish Complex Disease Research Program; ARIC, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities; BioMe, The IPM BioMe Biobank; BMI, Body mass index; BP, blood pressure; CARDIA, Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults; CCDG, Centers for Common Disease Genomics; CFS, Cleveland Family Study; CHS, Cardiovascular Health Study; DBP, diastolic BP; FHS, Framingham Heart Study; GeneSTAR, Genetic Studies of Atherosclerosis Risk; GENOA, Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy; GenSalt, Genetic Epidemiology Network of Salt-Sensitivity; GOLDN, Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network; HCHS-Sol, Hispanic Community Health Study-Study of Latinos; GWAS, Genome-wide association study; HTN, hypertension; HyperGen, Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network; JHS, Jackson Heart Study; MESA, Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis; MVP, Million Veteran Program; n, sample size; REGARDS, Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke; Samoan, Samoan Study; SBP, systolic BP; s.d., standard deviation; THRV, Taiwan Study of Hypertension using Rare Variants; TOPMed, Trans-omics for Precision Medicine; WES, whole-exome sequencing; WGS, whole-genome sequencing; WHI, Women’s Health Initiative.

*

Age in years.

Measurements in kg/m2.

Measurements in mmHg.

§

Defined as SBP≥140, DBP≥90 or use of anti-HTN medication.

ǁ

Includes 3,934 and 2,611 participants with WGS data from TOPMed and CCDG, respectively.

#

All are White British.