Correction
for
Benjamin et al., Circulation 109 (5) 613-619.
Circulation. 2004;109:3256
doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000135146.20333.6F
(Circulation. 2004;109:3256.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.
Correction
The article, "Clinical Correlates and Heritability of Flow-Mediated
Dilation in the Community: The Framingham Heart Study," by Benjamin
et al, which appeared in the February 10, 2004, issue of the
journal (
Circulation. 2004;109:613619), the authors regret
that they incorrectly described the method of blood pressure
ascertainment. In the regression models, instead of using the
automatic blood pressure device (Dinamap, Critikon, Inc), they
actually used the average of the physicians first and
second blood pressures from the same morning as the brachial
testing. The regression models using the Dinamap blood pressure
produced very similar results. Hence, for
Table 1, the correct
mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures were 128±17/76±10
for men and 126±20/73±10 for women. (The reported
values were were 128±17/75±10 for men and 122±18/67±11
for women.) The corrected rows of
Table 1 appear below.