Table 1: Baseline characteristics by race; ARIC, 1987-1989 (n = 11992).
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Black (n = 2952) |
White (n = 9040) |
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|
Mean (SD) |
Mean (SD) |
p-value* |
|
|
Age* |
53.3 (5.8) |
(54.3) (5.7) |
< 0.0001 |
|
BMI (kg/m2) |
29.6 (6.0) |
26.9 (4.8) |
< 0.0001 |
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N (%) |
N (%) |
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|
Peripheral Artery Disease |
146 (5.0) |
336 (3.7) |
0.0032 |
|
Male |
1106 (37.5) |
4212 (46.6) |
< 0.0001 |
|
Family CVD History |
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Paternal |
531 (22.1) |
2959 (35.4) |
< 0.0001 |
|
Maternal |
397 (15.0) |
1558 (18.0) |
0.0002 |
|
Marital Status |
1745 (59.9) |
7757 (87.1) |
< 0.0001 |
|
High School Education |
1766 (60.0) |
7534 (83.4) |
< 0.0001 |
|
Current Smoking Status |
856 (29.0) |
2229 (24.7) |
< 0.0001 |
|
Current Alcohol Use |
936 (32.0) |
5907 (65.4) |
< 0.0001 |
|
Hypertension |
1625 (55.3) |
2420 (26.9) |
< 0.0001 |
|
High Cholesterol |
753 (26.8) |
2310 (25.6) |
0.2231 |
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Diabetes |
565 (19.6) |
776 (8.6) |
< 0.0001 |
|
Aspirin |
846 (29.1) |
4735 (52.7) |
< 0.0001 |
*Comparisons by race performed with t-tests for continuous variables and chi-square tests for categorical variables.