Gender-Specific Association of ATP2B1 Variants with Susceptibility to Essential Hypertension in the Han Chinese Population

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the investigated participants.

Variables	Case	Control	P value
Number	902	902	N/A
Male/female	390/512	390/512	N/A
Age (y)	56.92 ± 7.36	56.59 ± 7.43
TG (mM)	2.02 ± 1.68	1.64 ± 1.12
HDL (mM)	1.41 ± 0.35	1.41 ± 0.33
TC (mM)	5.33 ± 1.01	5.18 ± 0.93
BMI (Kg/m^2)	24.65 ± 3.25	23.22 ± 2.88
Smoking habit	171	147
Alcohol abuse	152	148

TG: triglyceride; HDL: high-density lipoprotein; TC: total cholesterol; BMI: body mass index.