Table 2.

Description of the independent variables in a cohort of young Swedish men. Height and BMI are continuous variables, whereas intellectual capacity and coping are interval variables but treated as continuous variables in this analysis.

Variable	Numbers tested	Range of Values	Mean; SD	Skewness	Kurtosis
Height	48,502	128–208	179.7;6.7	0.0	3.2
BMI	48,502	14.3–54.6	22.5;3.4	1.5 (0.9)*	7.4 (4.5)*
Intellectual Capacity	46,097	1–9	5.0;2.0	0.0	2.4
Coping	40,094	1–9	4.8;1.8	-0.1	2.2

* after log transformation