Baseline characteristics in British women and men aged 60–79 years without cardiovascular disease by categories of hypertension amongst men. N = 3042.

In this table results are only presented for those with complete data, and for those with non-missing hypertensive status; HT = Hypertensive.*i.e. the p-value tests whether the distribution differs between any of the groups and has 3 degrees of freedom.**For these variables geometric means and 95% confidence intervals are presented.$Using robust standard errors to account for differences in variances between groups.$$Manual social class defined as social class III manual/class IV/class V/armed forces.†Included as categorical covariable with all levels (never/ex/current smoker, all levels of social class) in analysis.***Response not required if not on drugs.