Racial and Ethnic Variation in Lipoprotein (a) Levels among Asian Indian and Chinese Patients

Table 1

Patient characteristics by race/ethnicity and gender.

	Male			Female
	NHW	Asian	Chinese	NHW	Asian	Chinese
		Indian			Indian
N	1,126	213	93	896	82	58
Age (years)^M,F	54.1(13.2)	43.1 (8.6)^‡	51.5 (12.7)	56.7 (12.4)	44.2 (8.7)^‡	55 (13.2)
BMI (kg/m^2)^M	27.0 (3.8)	25.9 (3.7)	25.4 (3.5)	25.9 (4.7)	26.1 (4.7)	23.3 (3.0)
Lipids (mg/dL)
Total cholesterol^F	200 (40)	199 (35)	199 (41)	213 (43)	187 (31)^‡	218 (40)
LDL cholesterol	123 (35)	123 (30)	120 (37)	124 (38)	110 (27)	129 (36)
HDL cholesterol^MF	52 (13)	45 (10)^‡	51 (12)	66 (18)	53 (13)	65 (17)
Triglycerides^M	126 (76)	156 (82)	158 (113)	114 (70)	117 (55)	120 (67)
Prevalence (%, events)
Diabetes	5.6% (63)	9.4% (20)	6.5% (6)	7.2% (64)	19.5% (16)	10.3% (6)
Cardiovascular disease^M	19.4% (218)	6.1% (13)	17.2% (16)	14.2% (127)	3.7% (3)	6.9% (4)
Ischemic heart disease	14.5% (163)	5.2% (11)	15.1% (14)	8.0% (71)	2.4% (2)	6.9% (4)
Stroke	6.2% (70)	0.9% (2)	4.3% (4)	5.2% (46)	0.0% (0)	0.0% (0)
Peripheral vascular disease	3.6% (40)	0.0% (0)	2.2% (2)	4.8% (43)	1.2% (1)	1.7% (1)

All continuous variables listed as mean (SD).
NHW: Non-Hispanic White.
M,FKruskal-Wallis or Chi-square test 𝑃<.0001 for men or women, respectively.
^‡Brown-Mood 𝑃<.0001 for significant difference in median between this group and each of the other two racial groups. Both pairs of comparisons are significant.