Baseline characteristics in British women and men aged 60–79 years without cardiovascular disease by categories of hypertension amongst men. N = 3042.

Abstract

<p>In this table results are only presented for those with complete data, and for those with non-missing hypertensive status; HT = Hypertensive.</p><p>*i.e. the p-value tests whether the distribution differs between any of the groups and has 3 degrees of freedom.</p><p>**For these variables geometric means and 95% confidence intervals are presented.</p>$<p>Using robust standard errors to account for differences in variances between groups.</p>$$<p>Manual social class defined as social class III manual/class IV/class V/armed forces.</p>†<p>Included as categorical covariable with all levels (never/ex/current smoker, all levels of social class) in analysis.</p><p>***Response not required if not on drugs.</p