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. 2023 Sep 7;52(9):afad163. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afad163

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the study sample by status of insomnia.

Symptoms of Insomnia
Characteristics Total (N = 22,078) No (N = 18,431) Yes (N = 3,647)
Age, years 59.9 ± 8.8 59.8 ± 8.8 60.6 ± 8.7
Women 13,648 (61.8) 11,153 (60.5) 2,495 (68.4)
Education
Compulsory school or below 5,604 (25.4) 4,575 (24.8) 1,029 (28.2)
High school 8,859 (40.1) 7,398 (40.1) 1,461 (40.1)
University or above 7,615 (34.5) 6,458 (35.0) 1,157 (31.7)
Depression
Seldom/never 10,078 (45.7) 9,096 (49.4) 982 (26.9)
Sometimes 10,889 (49.3) 8,725 (47.3) 2,164 (59.3)
Often/always 1,111 (5.0) 610 (3.3) 501 (13.7)
Social isolation
Seldom/never 14,205 (64.3) 12,353 (67.0) 1852 (50.8)
Sometimes 6,763 (30.6) 5,416 (29.4) 1,347 (36.9)
Often/always 1,110 (5.0) 662 (3.6) 448 (12.3)
Body mass index, kg/m 2 25.0 ± 3.4 25.0 ± 3.3 25.1 ± 3.5
Physical activity, hours/week
≤2 2,822 (12.8) 2,303 (12.5) 519 (14.2)
3–4 6,289 (28.5) 5,249 (28.5) 1,040 (28.5)
5–6 5,031 (22.8) 4,229 (23.0) 802 (22.0)
>6 7,936 (36.0) 6,650 (36.1) 1,286 (35.3)
Smoking
Never 12,533 (56.8) 10,478 (56.9) 2055 (56.4)
Former 8,162 (37.0) 6,810 (37.0) 1,352 (37.1)
Current 1,383 (6.3) 1,143 (6.2) 240 (6.6)
Alcohol consumption, g/week
≤168 18,947 (85.8) 15,808 (85.8) 3,139 (86.1)
>168 3,131 (14.2) 2,623 (14.2) 508 (13.9)
Hypertension 3,695 (16.7) 2,973 (16.1) 722 (19.8)
Diabetes 672 (3.0) 540 (2.9) 132 (3.6)
Sleep duration, hours/day
< 5 646 (2.9) 336 (1.8) 310 (8.5)
5 1,061 (4.8) 455 (2.5) 606 (16.6)
6 3,957 (17.9) 2,813 (15.3) 1,144 (31.4)
7 9,835 (44.6) 8,728 (47.4) 1,107 (30.4)
8 6,119 (27.7) 5,679 (30.8) 440 (12.1)
≥ 9 460 (2.1) 420 (2.3) 40 (1.1)

Data presented as mean ± standard deviation or N (% in column).