Genetic loci for serum magnesium among African-Americans and gene-environment interaction at MUC1 and TRPM6 in European-Americans: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study

Table 1 Study Participant Characteristics in the ARIC and HANDLS Studies

	ARIC study		HANDLS study
	European-Americans	African-Americans	African-Americans
N	8926	2737	942
Age, mean (SD)	54.3 (5.7)	53.4 (5.8)	48.3 (9.0)
Female, % (n)	53.0 (4728)	62.6 (1714)	55.9 (527)
Prevalent diabetes, % (n)	8.4 (749)	18.7 (513)	32.2 (303)
Diuretic use, % (n)	14.5 (1297)	28.8 (788)	13.6 (128)
Estimated glomerula filtration rate (mL/min/1.73 m²), mean (SD)	93.3 (12.7)	103.8 (18.0)	96.3 (24.1)
Serum Mg (mmol/L), mean (SD)	0.83 (0.07)	0.79 (0.08)	0.77 (0.08)

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