Table 1.
Participants and settlement characteristics
| Parameters | Russia Tyumen |
Australia Perth |
Japan Nagakute |
Poland Poznan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latitude, degrees | 57°N | 31°S | 35°N | 52°N |
| Longitude, degrees | 65°E | 115°E | 136°E | 16°E |
| Number of participants, n | 341 | 30 | 104 | 65 |
| Sex (M/F), n | 103/238 | 8/22 | 52/52 | 22/43 |
| Age, years |
18.0 (17.0–24.0) |
21.5 (20.0–40.0) |
- |
20.0 (18.0–25.0) |
| BMI, kg/m2 |
21.4 (15.6–35.4) |
21.5 (15.9–32.6) |
- |
21.0 (17.7–28.4) |
| Eating daily breakfast, n (%) | 295 (86.5) | 24 (80.0) | 95 (91.3) | 63 (96.9) |
| Smoking, n (%) | 15(4.4) | 0 | - | 9 (14) |
The data are given as medians and range, n = 540
Abbreviations: BMI body mass index, M male, F female