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Table 1 Characteristics of 1369 CARDIA participants with cognitive function at Year 25

From: Association of blood pressure with cognitive function at midlife: a Mendelian randomization study

Variable

Value

Sample size, N

1369

Age (SD) (year)

50.8 (3.3)

Female (%)

739 (54.0)

Center (%)

 Birmingham, AL

273 (19.9)

 Chicago, IL

320 (23.4)

 Minneapolis, MN

443 (32.4)

 Oakland, CA

333 (24.3)

At least college education (%)

917 (67.0)

BMI (SD) (kg/m2)

28.3 (6.1)

Type2 Diabetes (%)

124 (9.1)

Current Smoking (%)

165 (12.1)

Systolic Blood Pressure (SD) (mmHg)

114.4 (13.7)

Diastolic Blood Pressure (SD) (mmHg)

70.8 (10.1)

Pulse Pressure (SD) (mmHg)

43.6 (7.6)

Hypertension (%)

341 (24.9)

HBP Rx use (%)

228 (16.7)

DSST (Mean (SD): Min-Max)

75.0 (14.9): 21–125

RAVLT (Mean (SD): Min-Max)

9.4 (3.1): 0–15

Stroop (Mean (SD): Min-Max)

19.3 (8.0): 4–71

  1. Abbreviations: CARDIA, the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study; SD Standard deviation, BMI Body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), HBP Rx Anti-hypertensive medication, DSST Digit Symbol Substitution Test, RAVLT Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Stroop The Stroop Interference test