Table 1.

CHARGE cohorts descriptives

	MESA/Hispanic Americans	FHS/Hispanic Americans	MESA/African Americans	CHS/African Americans	FHS/African Americans
Participant characteristics
No. subjects	1243	211	1472	603	203
Women	629 (50.6)	129 (61.1)	788 (53.5)	390 (64.7)	130 (64.0)
Age, years	61 [53, 69]	53 [44, 60]	63 [53, 70]	74 [71, 79]	58 [50, 67]
n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
ALA (% of total fatty acids)	0.16 [0.12, 0.20]	0.21 [0.16, 0.27]	0.15 [0.12, 0.19]	0.13 [0.11, 0.17]	0.18 [0.15, 0.23]
EPA	0.53 [0.37, 0.74]	0.57 [0.47, 0.78]	0.68 [0.51, 0.98]	0.53 [0.39, 0.67]	0.68 [0.48, 1.01]
DPA	0.86 [0.73, 1.00]	2.49 [2.13, 2.79]	0.93 [0.80, 1.07]	0.85 [0.75, 0.97]	2.54 [2.25, 2.89]
DHA	2.96 [2.29, 3.77]	4.21 [3.45, 5.13]	4.05 [3.25, 4.95]	3.46 [2.87, 4.17]	5.23 [4.21, 6.47]
n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
LA	20.92 [18.87, 23.07]	14.32 [12.24, 16.76]	18.88 [17.12, 20.84]	17.84 [16.46, 19.40]	12.53 [10.88, 15.16]
GLA	0.11 [0.08, 0.14]	0.15 [0.10, 0.18]	0.10 [0.08, 0.13]	0.07 [0.05, 0.09]	0.10 [0.07, 0.15]
DGLA	3.57 [3.04, 4.13]	1.95 [1.63, 2.35]	2.89 [2.47, 3.33]	2.76 [2.39, 3.24]	1.51 [1.32, 1.78]
AA	11.01 [9.37, 12.84]	16.56 [15.17, 17.74]	13.21 [11.65, 14.82]	12.64 [11.57, 13.86]	17.17 [15.95, 18.48]