Table 3.
Measures of overweight and obesity at baseline in 11 Nordic cohortsa
| Outcome | DCH | DNC | MDC | PPS | GOT- MONICA | SDPP | SIXTY | SNAC-K | SALT | SMC | FINRISK | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMI (kg/m2), continuous | N | 54,702 | 26,327 | 27,824 | 5,146 | 2,565 | 7,541 | 3,942 | 2,559 | 6,363 | 17,350 | 8,320 | 162,639 |
| Median | 25.5 | 23.1 | 25.3 | 25.1 | 24.5 | 25.1 | 26.2 | 25.4 | 24.2 | 24.3 | 25.8 | 24.9 | |
| (5th, 95th percentile) | (20.4, 33.4) | (19.2, 30.2) | (20.2, 33.0) | (20.7, 30.5) | (19.7, 32.3) | (20.4, 33.3) | (21.0, 34.3) | (19.9, 32.8) | (19.6, 30.6) | (19.7, 32.0) | (20.2, 35.0) | (19.9, 32.7) | |
| BMI (kg/m2), categorical (%) | <24.9 | 43.8 | 71.5 | 46.7 | 48.3 | 55.9 | 48.2 | 36.4 | 45.5 | 60.2 | 57.4 | 42.1 | 51.2 |
| 25–29.9 | 41.6 | 22.9 | 39.8 | 45.2 | 34.3 | 39 | 44.6 | 41.3 | 33.3 | 32.5 | 38.9 | 36.8 | |
| ≥30 | 14.6 | 5.6 | 13.5 | 6.5 | 9.8 | 12.8 | 19 | 13.2 | 6.5 | 10.1 | 18.9 | 12 | |
| WC (cm), continuous | Women | ||||||||||||
| N | 28,697 | 7,270 | 16,873 | —b | 1,333 | 4,594 | 2,026 | — | — | 14,930 | 4,375 | 80,098 | |
| median | 80 | 80 | 76 | — | 76 | 79 | 85 | — | — | 82 | 81.5 | 80 | |
| (5th, 95th percentile) | (67.0, 103.0) | (68.0, 101.0) | (64.0, 98.0) | — | (65.0, 98.0) | (67.0, 100.0) | (70.0, 109.0) | — | — | (69.0, 102.0) | (67.0, 108.5) | (66.0, 102.0) | |
| Men | |||||||||||||
| N | 25,999 | — | 10,938 | — | 1,229 | 2,971 | 1,871 | — | — | — | 3,934 | 46,942 | |
| median | 95 | — | 93.0 | — | 91 | 92 | 97 | — | — | — | 95 | 94 | |
| (5th, 95th percentile) | (81.0, 114.0) | — | (79.0, 111.0) | — | (77.0, 107.0) | (80.0, 108.0) | (82.0, 116.0) | — | — | — | (78.5, 116.5) | (80.0, 113.0) | |
| Central obesity, binaryc | N (%) | 14,407 (26.3) | 1,798 (24.7)d | 4,944 (17.8) | — | 391 (15.3) | 1,381 (18.2) | 1,470 (37.6) | — | — | 4,644 (31.1)d | 2,573 (31.0) | 31,608 (24.9) |
Based on analytical samples of N = 162,673 for BMI-based outcomes and N = 127,088 for WC and central obesity.
DCH, DNC, MDC, PPS, GOT-MONICA, SDPP, SIXTY, SNAC-K, SALT, SMC, FINRISK.
—, no data.
Women: ≥88 cm, men: ≥102 cm.
Including women only.
BMI indicates body mass index; WC, waist circumference; DCH indicates Diet, Cancer and Health cohort; DNC, Danish Nurses Cohort; FINRISK, the National FINRISK study; GOT-MONICA, Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease cohort (Gothenburg); MDC, Malmö Diet and Cancer study; PPS, Primary Prevention Study cohort; SALT, Stockholm Screening Across the Lifespan Twin study; SDPP, Stockholm Diabetes Prevention Program; SIXTY the Stockholm Cohort of 60-year-olds; SMC, The Swedish Mammography Cohort; SNAC-K, Swedish National Study of Aging and Care in Kungsholmen.