Table 1.

Lifestyle characteristics

		Men				Women
		Nuuk	Sisimiut	Qaanaaq	All	Nuuk	Sisimiut	Qaanaaq	All
Age (years)	n	32	51	38	121	45	42	32	119
	median	55	30	34	36	38	32	34	35
	mean	54	31	33	38	36	33	32	34
	min	38	18	19	18	19	18	18	18
	max	72	46	45	72	45	44	44	45
	P-value*	<.001	.15	.68	.001
	P-value**	<.001 (Nuuk higher)				.07 (no post hoc test)
BMI (kg/m2)	n	30	51	38	119	43	42	32	117
	median	28	26	27	27	26	26	24	25
	mean	27	27	27	27	26	27	25	26
	min	22	19	20	19	18	19	18	18
	max	35	36	41	41	32	47	34	47
	P-value*	.03	.92	.06	.04
	P-value**	.40 (no post hoc test)				.56 (no post hoc test)
Smoking (years)	n	29	51	37	117	42	42	30	114
	median	35	11	18	18	20	12	16	15
	mean	31	12	17	18	16	12	15	14
	min	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	max	59	26	30	59	33	27	29	33
	P-value*	<.001	.85	.71	.001
	P-value**	<.001 (all different)				.22 (no post hoc test)
n-3/n-6	n	32	37	38	107	45	38	32	115
	median	0.55	0.22	0.39	0.35	0.25	0.29	0.37	0.29
	mean	0.69	0.29	0.50	0.48	0.29	0.32	0.43	0.34
	min	0.20	0.10	0.09	0.09	0.12	0.14	0.15	0.12
	max	1.65	0.73	1.45	1.65	0.72	0.82	1.26	1.26
	P-value*	<.001	.18	.95	<.001
	P-value**	<.001(all different)				<.001 (Qaanaaq higher)
Seabird intake (per month)	n	30	48	36	114	44	41	31	116
	median	2.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
	mean	4.6	2.7	2.4	3.1	1.4	1.3	3.5	1.9
	min	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	max	20	28	20	28	8	2	28	28
	P-value*	<.001	.15	.84	<.001
	P-value**	<.001 (Nuuk higher)				.02 (***)
Dairy food consumption (per month)	n	31	50	38	119	45	42	32	119
	median	36	51	32	40	56	57	37	50
	mean	37	49	31	40	53	49	35	47
	min	4	8	3	3	2	0	0	0
	max	76	84	58	84	84	84	84	84
	P-value*	.005	.64	.34	.05
	P-value**	<.001 (Sisimiut higher)				.01 (Qaanaaq lower)

*: p value for men compared to women within the same district (e.g. Nuuk men and Nuuk women) using Student's t-test.

**: p value for comparison between the districts for the separate genders (e.g. Nuuk vs. Sisimiut vs Qaanaaq and vice versa) using ANOVA, result in the brackets (post hoc LSD/Dunnett T3 test).

***: Qaanaaq borderline higher than Sisimiut (p = 0.07)