Table 3.
Sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics of the study population by sex: adults from isolated Mylopotamos villages, Crete, Greece, the Hellenic Isolated Cohorts MANOLIS study
| Total | Men | Women | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | P | |
| Marital status | 1433 | 100·0 | 637 | 44·5 | 796 | 55·5 | |
| Married | 1011 | 70·6 | 503 | 79·0 | 508 | 63·8 | <0·001 |
| In relationship | 17 | 1·2 | 13 | 2·0 | 4 | 0·5 | |
| Separated/divorced | 9 | 0·6 | 6 | 1·0 | 3 | 0·4 | |
| Single | 153 | 10·7 | 93 | 14·6 | 60 | 7·5 | |
| Widowed | 243 | 17·0 | 22 | 3·5 | 221 | 27·8 | |
| Educational attainment | 1443 | 100·0 | 645 | 44·7 | 798 | 55·3 | |
| No education | 153 | 10·6 | 30 | 4·7 | 123 | 15·4 | <0·001 |
| Primary | 909 | 63 | 416 | 64·5 | 493 | 61·8 | |
| Secondary | 314 | 21·8 | 165 | 25·6 | 149 | 18·7 | |
| Tertiary | 57 | 4·0 | 28 | 4·3 | 29 | 3·6 | |
| Other | 10 | 0·7 | 6 | 0·9 | 4 | 0·5 | |
| Smoking habits | 1440 | 100·0 | 644 | 44·7 | 796 | 55·3 | |
| Current smokers | 314 | 21·8 | 249 | 38·7 | 65 | 8·2 | <0·001 |
| Former smokers | 259 | 18·0 | 235 | 36·5 | 24 | 3·0 | |
| Never smokers | 867 | 60·2 | 160 | 24·8 | 707 | 88·8 | |
| n | Mean or sd | n | Mean or sd | n | Mean or sd | ||
| Smoking starting age (years) | 502 | 18·9 | 425 | 18·2 | 72 | 23·1 | <0·001 |
| sd | 7·0 | 6·5 | 8·5 | ||||
| Smoking quitting age (years) | 231 | 51·7 | 214 | 52·3 | 17 | 43·5 | 0·028 |
| sd | 14·5 | 14·2 | 15·7 | ||||
| Total smoking years | 317 | 30·2 | 277 | 31·8 | 38 | 19·7 | <0·001 |
| sd | 16·3 | 16·3 | 12·7 | ||||
| Total years of education | 1025 | 6·1 | 463 | 6·7 | 555 | 5·5 | <0·001 |
| sd | 3·5 | 3·2 | 3·7 | ||||
P values <0·05 are indicated in bold font; χ 2 test for categorical variables, Mann–Whitney test for continuous variables.