Association of Race and Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE): The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Cohort
Table 2
Baseline characteristics by major adverse cardiac events (MACE); ARIC (n = 12770).
MACEa (n = 1790)
No MACE (n = 10980)
Mean (SD)
Mean (SD)
valueb
Age (yr)
56.1 (5.5)
53.8 (5.7)
<0.0001
BMI (kg/m2)
28.6 (5.3)
27.5 (5.3)
<0.0001
N (%)
N (%)
Black race
555 (31.0)
2583 (23.5)
<0.0001
Male
1059 (59.2)
4645 (42.3)
<0.0001
Family CVD history
Paternal
553 (35.1)
3169 (32.0)
0.0150
Maternal
355 (21.2)
1736 (16.7)
<0.0001
Marital status
1362 (77.3)
8757 (80.9)
0.0005
High school education
1186 (66.3)
8705 (79.4)
<0.0001
Current smoking status
640 (35.8)
2651 (24.2)
<0.0001
Current alcohol use
895 (50.3)
6362 (58.1)
<0.0001
Hypertension
958 (53.8)
3368 (30.8)
<0.0001
High cholesterol
596 (33.9)
2691 (24.8)
<0.0001
Diabetes
458 (25.8)
978 (9.0)
<0.0001
Aspirin
854 (48.2)
5072 (46.6)
0.2140
aMACE was defined as the first occurrence of myocardial infarction, stroke, or CHD-related death; bcomparisons performed with t-tests for continuous variables and chi-square tests for categorical variables.
