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Table 1 Characteristics of participants (N = 1218)

From: Epigenetic loci for blood pressure are associated with hypertensive target organ damage in older African Americans from the genetic epidemiology network of Arteriopathy (GENOA) study

Variable

Mean (SD) or %

Female

71.4 (%)

Age (years)

63.6 (9.2)

Difference between Phases 1 and 2 (years)

5.1 (1.3)

BMI (kg/m2)

31.7 (6.7)

Educational attainment (years)

12.1 (3.7)

SBP (mmHg)a

145.9 (22.0)

DBP (mmHg)a

82.9 (11.1)

Current smoking

12.1 (%)

Hypertension

80.0 (%)

Taking anti-hypertensive medication

71.6 (%)

Diabetes

31.1 (%)

Estimated glomerular filtration rate, ml/min/1.73 m2 (N = 1212)

88.5 (21.1)

Urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (N = 1214)b

51.5 (1.5)

Relative wall thickness (N = 1181)

0.3 (0.1)

Left ventricular mass index (g/height2.7) (N = 1171)

39.2 (10.1)

Ankle-brachial index (N = 1176)

1.0 (0.1)

  1. SD: Standard Deviation, SBP: Systolic blood pressure, DBP: Diastolic blood pressure, Hypertension: systolic blood pressure ≥ 140, or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90, or taking anti-hypertensive medication, Diabetes: sugar glucose level ≥ 126 or taking diabetes medication
  2. aSBP and DBP at Phase 1. For participants taking anti-hypertensive medication, 15 and 10 mmHg were added to SBP and DBP, respectively
  3. bUrine albumin-to-creatinine ratio was log transformed prior to analysis
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BMC Medical Genomics

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