Heritability Estimates for Systolic Blood Pressure

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Blood Pressure Variable	Families	Subjects	Heritability
Genome Scan Pedigrees
Systolic Blood Pressure, crude	238	2180	0.278 ± 0.037
Systolic Blood Pressure, adjusted for age	238	2102	0.371 ± 0.041
Systolic Blood Pressure, adjusted for age, BMI	238	2099	0.383 ± 0.041
Genome Scan Pedigrees, Excluding Treated
Systolic Blood Pressure, adjusted for age	238	2067	0.323 ± 0.043
Systolic Blood Pressure, adjusted for age, BMI	238	2064	0.339 ± 0.043

Adjusted for sex, age and body mass index where indicated

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