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. 2025 Jun 5;17(6):e85429. doi: 10.7759/cureus.85429

Table 1. General characteristics compared between included and excluded participants.

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation or the number of sample size and its percentage.

Independent t-test for continuous variables and Chi-squared test for categorical variables were used.

  n = 22,559  
  Excluded Included (Final participants)  
  n = 11,997 n = 10,562 p-value
Age, years 40.8 ± 24.6 49.9 ± 19.0 < 0.001
Gender, n (%)     < 0.001
 Male 5743 (47.9) 4611 (43.7)  
 Female 6254 (52.1) 5951 (56.3)  
Household income, n (%) n = 11,927 n = 10,526 < 0.001
  Low 1926 (16.2) 1978 (18.8)  
  Low middle 3038 (25.5) 2642 (25.1)  
  Middle high 3436 (28.8) 2823 (26.8)  
  High 3527 (29.6) 3083 (29.3)  
Education level, n (%) n = 10,342 n = 9,933 < 0.001
  ≤Elementary school 3999 (38.7) 2077 (20.9)  
  Middle school 970 (9.4) 1144 (11.5)  
  High school 2600 (25.1) 3156 (31.8)  
  ≥College 2773 (26.8) 3556 (35.8)  
Smoking status, n (%) n = 10,844 n = 10,465 < 0.001
  Never 7558 (69.7) 6665 (63.7)  
  Former 1915 (17.7) 2216 (21.2)  
  Current 1371 (12.6) 1584 (15.1)  
Drinking status, n (%) n = 10,853 n = 10,470 < 0.001
  < 2 times per week 9272 (85.4) 8522 (81.4)  
  ≥2 times per week 1581 (14.6) 1948 (18.6)  
Physical activity, n (%) n = 7,418 n = 9,214 0.024
  No 4372 (58.9) 5270 (57.2)  
  Yes 3046 (41.1) 3944 (42.8)