Estimates of Prevalence of Pulmonary Hypertension according to Different International Definitions

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the study population (n = 239).

Characteristics	Statistics
Mean age ± SD (range) in years	52.4 ± 13.4 (15–88)
Gender
Female	141 (59.0%)
Male	98 (41.0%)
Residence
Rural	136 (56.9%)
Semiurban	2 (0.8%)
Urban	101 (42.3%)
Nonsmokers	188 (78.7%)
Smokers/exsmokers	51 (21.3%)
mPAP ± SD (range) in mmHg	22.3 ± 10.1 (8–61)
Mean pulmonary artery diameter ± SD (range) in mm	27.4 ± 3.4 (22–40)

SD, standard deviation; mPAP, mean pulmonary artery pressure.