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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Apr 3;33(4):624–627. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-23-0983

Table 1.

Baseline participant characteristics by sleep duration categories

Sleep Duration
Missing <7 hours 7-<9 hours ≥9hours
Number of participants 3,630 116,835 319,223 35,598
Variable Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Age (years) 57.2 (8.2) 56.7 (7.9) 56.7 (8.2) 58.8 (8.1)
Follow-up Time (Years) 10.3 (2.4) 10.5 (2.2) 10.5 (2.2) 10.3 (2.5)
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Sex
 Men 1,387 (38.2) 55,214 (47.3) 146,881 (46.0) 15,664 (44.0)
 Women 2,243 (61.8) 61,621 (52.7) 172,342 (54.0) 19,934 (56.0)
Race
 Missing participants 678 (18.7) 519 (0.44) 980 (0.3) 144 (0.4)
 Asian participants 144 (4.0) 3,342 (2.9) 6,814 (2.1) 866 (2.4)
 Black participants 220 (6.1) 3,505 (3.0) 3,592 (1.1) 469 (1.3)
 Mixed-race participants 31 (0.9) 949 (0.8) 1,649 (0.5) 208 (0.6)
 Other participants 90 (2.5) 1,524 (1.3) 2,471 (0.8) 318 (0.9)
 White participants 2,467 (68.0) 106,996 (91.6) 303,717 (95.1) 33,593 (94.4)
BMI (kg/m 2 )
 Missing 67 (1.9) 700 (0.6) 1,323 (0.4) 268 (0.8)
 <25.0 944 (26.0) 33,882 (29.0) 108,887 (34.1) 9,873 (27.7)
 25.0 - <30.0 1,349 (37.2) 48,488 (41.5) 137,573 (43.1) 14,805 (41.6)
 30.0 - <35.0 794 (21.9) 23,239 (19.9) 52,549 (16.5) 7,259 (20.4)
 35.0 - <40.0 305 (8.4) 7,325 (6.3) 13,957 (4.4) 2,381 (6.7)
 ≥40 171 (4.7) 3,201 (2.7) 4,934 (1.6) 1,012 (2.8)
Diabetes Status 
 Missing 709 (19.5) 489 (0.4) 807 (0.3) 166 (0.5)
 Yes 327 (9.0) 6,908 (5.9) 14,399 (4.5) 3,136 (8.8)
 No 2,594 (71.5) 109,438 (93.7) 304,017 (95.2) 32,296 (90.7)
Alcohol Intake
 Missing 746 (20.6) 221 (0.2) 357 (0.1) 54 (0.2)
 Never 346 (9.5) 6,256 (5.4) 12,489 (3.9) 2,047 (5.8)
 Former 248 (6.8) 5,175 (4.4) 9,636 (3.0) 1,858 (5.2)
 Current drinker, infrequent (<3x/month) 994 (27.4) 29,194 (25.0) 68,270 (21.4) 8,900 (25.0)
 Current drinker, <1 drink/day 645 (17.8) 26,856 (23.0) 82,463 (25.8) 7,848 (22.1)
 Current drinker, 1–3 drink/day 543 (15.0) 38,924 (33.3) 119,835 (37.5) 11,275 (31.7)
 Current drinker, >3 drink/day 108 (3.0) 10,209 (8.7) 26,173 (8.2) 3,616 (10.2)
Smoking Status
 Missing 731 (20.1) 521 (0.5) 1,030 (0.3) 144 (0.4)
 Never 1,621 (44.7) 61,443 (52.6) 178,674 (56.0) 18,090 (50.8)
 Former 810 (22.3) 39,871 (34.1) 108,783 (34.1) 13,020 (36.6)
 Current 468 (12.9) 15,000 (12.8) 30,736 (9.6) 4,344 (12.2)
Employment/Shift Work
 Missing 674 (18.6) 536 (0.5) 1,119 (0.4) 148 (0.4)
 Employed-Mostly Daytime Work 576 (15.9) 55,245 (47.3) 162,513 (50.9) 9,645 (27.1)
 Employed-Job Involves Shift Work 143 (3.9) 7,027 (6.0) 15,310 (4.8) 1,259 (3.5)
 Employed-Job Involves Night Shift Work 223 (6.1) 8,841 (7.6) 14,316 (4.5) 1,264 (3.6)
 Retired 1,105 (30.4) 32,844 (28.1) 101,946 (31.9) 17,603 (49.5)
 Unemployed 909 (25.0) 12,342 (10.6) 24,019 (7.5) 5,679 (16.0)

Missingness for analytic variables (Number/475,286): Sleep Duration (3,630/475,286); Chronotype (54,984/475,286); Employment/Shift Work (2,477/475,286); Insomnia/Sleeplessness (1,104/475,286); Snoring (34,608/475,286); Daytime Sleeping (3,235/475,286); Age (0/475,286); Sex (0/475,286); BMI (2,358/475,286); Alcohol Intake (1,378/475,286); Smoking Status, Duration, and Frequency (4,510/475,286); Race (2,321/475,286); Diabetes Status (2,171/475,286).

UK Biobank field codes for variables: Sleep Duration (1160); Chronotype (1180); Employment/Shift Work (6142; 826; 3426); Insomnia/Sleeplessness (1200); Snoring (1210); Daytime Sleeping (1220); Age (21003; 33); Sex (31); BMI (23104; 21001); Alcohol Intake (1558; 1568; 1578; 1588; 1598; 1608; 5364; 20117); Smoking Status, Duration, and Frequency (1239; 1249; 2644; 2877; 2887; 2897; 3446; 3456; 5959; 20116; 21022); Race (21000); Diabetes Status (2443).