Table 2. Age-adjusted baseline characteristics by survival status in the Shanghai Women's Health Study (n = 71,243).
| Characteristics | Percent Survived (n = 68,383) | Percent Deceased (n = 2,860) | p-Valuea |
| Age at baseline (y) | |||
| 40–49 | 50.7 | 14.6 | |
| 50–59 | 24.8 | 19.0 | |
| 60–70 | 24.5 | 66.4 | <0.01 |
| Education | |||
| ≤Elementary | 20.2 | 26.3 | |
| Junior high school | 37.3 | 41.3 | |
| High school | 28.4 | 22.9 | |
| >High school | 14.1 | 9.5 | <0.01 |
| Occupation | |||
| Manual and agricultural workers/unknown | 50.0 | 56.6 | |
| Clerical | 20.5 | 21.4 | |
| Professional | 29.5 | 22.0 | <0.01 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | |||
| <18.5 | 3.3 | 5.5 | |
| 18.5–24.99 | 61.8 | 56.2 | |
| 25.0–29.99 | 30.0 | 31.5 | |
| ≥30.0 | 4.9 | 6.7 | <0.01 |
| WHR tertiles | |||
| <0.786 | 33.5 | 27.9 | |
| 0.786 to <0.830 | 33.4 | 30.7 | |
| ≥0.830 | 33.1 | 41.4 | <0.01 |
| Exercise participation (MET, h/d) | |||
| None | 64.5 | 66.8 | |
| >0 to <1.99 | 24.3 | 23.5 | |
| ≥2.0 | 11.1 | 9.7 | <0.01 |
| Spouse smoke b | |||
| Ever | 61.0 | 65.1 | |
| Never | 39.0 | 34.9 | <0.01 |
| Fruit and vegetable intake tertiles (g/d) | |||
| <404.3 | 33.1 | 37.8 | |
| 404.3–626.5 | 33.5 | 31.2 | |
| ≥626.5 | 33.5 | 31.0 | <0.01 |
Among women who never smoked cigarettes or drank alcohol regularly. All values (except age) were directly standardized to the age distribution of the cohort.
a
p-Value from chi-square test for general association.
b
Excluded from the analysis were women without information on exposure to spousal smoking (n = 7,452).