Table 1.
Distribution of cardiorespiratory risk factors among women and men
| Cardiorespiratory risk factor | Women |
Men |
p-value for difference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Mean (SD)* | N | Mean (SD) | ||
| Age (years) | 644 | 46.6 (7.0) | 1272 | 48.0 (8.2) | <0.001 |
| Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) | 643 | 126.5 (20.4) | 1269 | 134.2 (21.4) | <0.001 |
| Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) | 642 | 81.7 (14.9) | 1267 | 84.2 (14.4) | 0.01 |
| Total cholesterol (mmol/L) | 553 | 5.20 (1.14) | 930 | 5.05 (1.16) | <0.001 |
| 2-hr glucose† (mmol/L) | 622 | 4.08 (0.68) | 1233 | 4.32 (0.87) | <0.001 |
| Body Mass Index (kg/m2) | 644 | 24.93 (4.03) | 1271 | 24.97 (3.22) | 0.79 |
| FEV1 (L) | 634 | 2.14 (0.50) | 1225 | 3.07 (0.76) | <0.001 |
| Percent | Percent | ||||
| Smoking status: | |||||
| Never smoker | 229 | 35.4 | 178 | 14.2 | <0.001 |
| Ex-smoker | 86 | 13.9 | 238 | 18.5 | 0.008 |
| Pipe and cigar (men only) | n/a | n/a | 118 | 9.3 | - |
| Current cigarette smoker | 329 | 50.8 | 738 | 57.9 | 0.005 |
| ECG ischaemia | 584 | 2.4 | 1149 | 3.8 | 0.11 |
| Mortality Outcomes | Deaths | (% of all cause mortality) | Deaths | (% of all cause mortality) | |
| All cause mortality | 348 | (100.0) | 871 | (100.0) | - |
| CVD mortality | 152 | (43.7) | 434 | (49.8) | 0.06 |
| CHD mortality | 75 | (21.6) | 281 | (32.3) | <0.001 |
| Stroke mortality | 46 | (13.2) | 74 | (8.5) | 0.02 |
| Cancer mortality | 100 | (28.7) | 224 | (25.7) | 0.31 |
| Lung cancer | 13 | (3.7) | 62 | (7.1) | 0.04 |
| Respiratory mortality | 45 | (12.9) | 114 | (13.1) | 0.98 |
| Other deaths | 51 | (14.7) | 99 | (11.4) | 0.14 |
*
All proportions and means (apart from age) are adjusted for age. Standard deviations shown are of the unadjusted distributions
†
2-hr glucose adjusted for time since glucose load (see statistical methods)