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Table 2 Description of BHS populations of participants aged 18-80 years, for variables with longitudinal data, at the time of first assessment.a

From: The longitudinal association of common susceptibility variants for type 2 diabetes and obesity with fasting glucose level and BMI

Variable (units)

Unrelated population (n= 2,864), mean (SD)

Unrelated male population (n= 1,234), mean (SD)

Unrelated female population (n= 1,630), mean (SD)

Age (years)

37.8 (11.6)

38.1 (11.6)

37.6 (11.6)

BMI (kg/m2)

24.3 (3.6)

24.9 (3.2)

23.8 (3.8)

Fasting glucose (mmol/l)

5.0 (1.1)

5.2 (1.4)

4.8 (0.8)

Triacylglycerol (mmol/l)

1.2 (0.8)

1.4 (1.0)

1.1 (0.6)

HDL (mmol/l)

1.4 (0.4)

1.3 (0.3)

1.6 (0.4)

Total cholesterol (mmol/l)

5.6 (1.2)

5.6 (1.2)

5.6 (1.2)

  1. a Originally published as Table 2 in Webster RJ, Warrington NM, Weedon MN, Hattersley AT, McCaskie PA, Beilby JP, Palmer LJ, Frayling TM: The association of common genetic variants in the APOA5, LPL and GCK genes with longitudinal changes in metabolic and cardiovascular traits. Diabetologia 2009, 52(1):106-114, © Springer-Verlag 2008, reproduced here with kind permission of Springer Science+Business Media.