Table 1.

Participant characteristics (unweighted), stratified by sex and race/ethnicity

	Men				Women
	White	Black	Hispanic	Other	White	Black	Hispanic	Other
Sample size, n	134,619	26,766	35,790	11,300	157,731	41,345	44,652	12,870
Age at survey, mean yrs (SD)	47.6 (17.0)	45.5 (16.4)	40.6 (15.4)	42.4 (16.0)	49.2 (17.8)	45.0 (16.9)	41.4 (15.9)	43.7 (16.7)
Follow-up, mean yrs (SD)	8.9 (5.3)	8.4 (5.1)	8.8 (5.2)	7.5 (4.9)	9.2 (5.3)	8.8 (5.2)	9.1 (5.2)	7.6 (5.0)
Person-years	1,203,789	224,185	315,056	85,213	1,447,070	364,681	407,088	97,830
All-cause deaths, n (%)	17,026 (13)	3,379 (13)	3,141 (9)	750 (7)	18,057 (11)	3,986 (10)	2,781 (6)	684 (5)
Alcohol use, %
Never drinker	19	31	26	34	30	49	53	55
Former drinker	9	9	7	5	6	5	4	3
Category I (lowest)	67	56	63	59	60	43	42	40
Category II	3	2	2	1	3	1	1	1
Category III (highest)	3	2	2	1	1	1	0	0
Smoking, %
Never smoker	46	53	59	60	55	67	78	80
Former smoker	30	19	20	20	23	13	11	9
Current some day smoker	4	7	8	5	4	5	4	3
Current everyday smoker	20	21	13	15	18	15	8	8
BMI, %
Underweight	1	1	1	2	3	2	2	6
Healthy weight	31	30	27	48	46	27	36	59
Overweight	43	39	46	37	27	31	33	21
Obese	25	30	27	14	24	41	30	13
Physical activity, %
Active	52	44	41	51	44	31	32	41
Somewhat active	16	14	13	17	21	18	16	22
Sedentary	33	42	46	32	35	51	52	38
Education %
Highschool or less	39	54	68	27	40	51	66	33
Some college	30	30	21	25	32	33	24	25
Bachelor’s degree or more	31	16	11	47	28	16	11	42
Married/cohabitating, %	59	42	60	58	54	26	52	56
Born in United States, %	96	89	39	35	95	92	42	34

For weighted data, see Supplementary Table S2. py: person-years; SD: standard deviation; yrs: years