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Characteristics of Incident Coronary Heart Disease cases and non-cases in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohort, stratitifed by race |
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| Whites |
African Americans |
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| Cases |
Non-Cases |
Cases |
Non-Cases |
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| (n = 1,168) |
(n = 8,802) |
(n = 319) |
(n = 3,119) |
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| Mean (SEM) |
Mean (SEM) |
P** |
Mean (SEM) |
Mean (SEM) |
P** |
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| Age (years)† |
55.7 (0.2) |
53.9 (0.06) |
<0.0001 |
55 (0.3) |
53.1 (0.1) |
<0.0001 |
| Age at event (years) |
63.9 (0.2) |
-- |
63.0 (0.4) |
-- |
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| Body Mass Index (kg/m2)† |
27.8 (0.1) |
26.8 (0.05) |
<0.0001 |
30 (0.3) |
29.5 (0.1) |
0.1 |
| HDL Cholesterol (mg/dL)† |
42.8 (0.4) |
52.2 (0.2) |
<0.0001 |
48.6 (0.8) |
56.0 (0.3) |
<0.0001 |
| Total Cholesterol (mmol/L)† |
5.82 (0.03) |
5.5 (0.01) |
<0.0001 |
5.84 (0.07) |
5.51 (0.02) |
<0.0001 |
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| % |
% |
P** |
% |
% |
P** |
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| Males |
69.4 |
42.2 |
<0.001 |
49.5 |
35.9 |
<0.001 |
| Diabetes† |
20.2 |
6.6 |
<0.001 |
34.2 |
16.4 |
<0.001 |
| Hypertension† |
38.6 |
23.7 |
<0.001 |
72.7 |
52.1 |
<0.001 |
| Smoking† |
31.4 |
23.6 |
<0.001 |
42 |
27.9 |
<0.001 |
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SEM = Standard error of the mean *P-value comparing means or proportions between cases and non-cases †At the baseline visit | ||||||
Knowles et al. BMC Medical Genetics 2008 9:23 doi:10.1186/1471-2350-9-23 |
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