Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study sample.

From: The association between eicosanoids and incident atrial fibrillation in the Framingham Heart Study

Variable

Participants without prevalent AF

n = 2676

Age (years)

66 ± 9

Women

1488 (55.6%)

Height (cm)

167 ± 10

Weight (kg)

79 ± 18

Current smoking

249 (9.3%)

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)

129 ± 17

Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)

74 ± 10

Antihypertensive medication use

1359 (50.8%)

Diabetes mellitus

342 (12.8%)

Prevalent heart failure

22 (0.8%)

Prevalent myocardial infarction

100 (3.7%)

  1. Values are represented as n (%) for dichotomous variables or mean ± standard deviation (SD) for continuous variables.