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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 31.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2010 Aug 16;122(9):876–883. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.915165

Table 1. Age-standardized characteristics of study participants, 1980-2006*.

Red Meat Poultry Fish
Fifths 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Median Intake
(servings/day) 		0.49 0.83 1.14 1.50 2.11 0.07 0.14 0.24 0.40 0.56 0.07 0.11 0.14 0.25 0.43
Age (yrs) 58 58 58 58 57 58 57 58 58 58 57 58 58 58 58
Body Mass Index
(kg/m2) 		25 26 26 26 26 25 26 26 26 27 26 25 26 26 27
Current Smoker
(%) 		13 15 17 17 19 21 19 17 13 12 19 17 17 14 13
Family History of
Early MI (%) 		13 13 13 13 13 12 13 13 13 13 13 12 13 12 14
History of
Angina (%) 		7 6 7 8 10 8 9 6 7 7 9 5 9 5 8
History of High
Blood Pressure (%) 		30 30 32 36 41 34 38 30 32 31 41 23 38 23 35
History of
High Cholesterol
(%) 		31 33 36 39 40 35 37 35 35 35 37 34 36 34 36
History of
Diabetes (%) 		8 8 10 11 14 10 11 9 10 10 12 7 11 7 12
Aspirin Use
At Least
Once Per Week
(%) 		22 21 22 22 24 23 24 21 21 20 25 17 24 17 23
Current
Hormone Use (%) 		25 26 26 25 23 23 22 26 27 27 23 29 23 30 25
Vitamin E
Use (%) 		26 25 24 23 21 22 22 24 25 26 20 26 22 28 25
Multivitamin
Use (yrs) 		7.8 7.7 7.4 7.0 6.6 6.6 6.6 7.4 7.8 8.2 6.3 7.7 7.0 8.4 7.8
Calories
(Kcal/day) 		1326 1492 1623 1761 2015 1480 1565 1656 1698 1815 1535 1612 1620 1739 1723
Cereal Fiber
(g/day) 		3.3 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.5 3.7 3.9 2.7 3.8 3.1 4.3 3.7
Trans Fat
(g/day) 		2.4 3.0 3.6 4.1 5.2 3.6 3.8 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.9 3.6 3.8 3.5 3.4
Alcohol
(g/day) 		5.8 6.1 6.3 6.5 6.6 5.6 6.5 6.3 6.2 6.2 5.9 5.4 6.6 6.4 6.4
Activity
(METS/wk) 		21 18 17 16 15 15 15 17 19 20 14 15 16 19 21
*

Median values given for continuous variables; percentages of population given for dichotomous variables