Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics and lifestyle risk factors by sex and age group
| Men (n = 977) | Women (n = 1039) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Age 18-29 | Age 30-39 | Age 40-49 | Age 50-64 | p-value | Age 18-29 | Age 30-39 | Age 40-49 | Age 50-64 | p-value | |
| (n = 2016) | (n = 150) | (n = 219) | (n = 304) | (n = 304) | (n = 182) | (n = 287) | (n = 218) | (n = 352) | |||
| A. Socio-demographics | |||||||||||
| Education, n (%) | |||||||||||
| Junior high school or below | 510 (25.6) | 3 (2.0) | 14 (6.5) | 74 (24.6) | 136 (44.9) | <0.001 | 7 (3.9) | 28 (9.9) | 47 (21.9) | 201 (57.4)* | <0.001 |
| Senior high school | 462 (23.2) | 33 (22.4) | 30 (13.9) | 85 (28.2) | 67 (22.1) | 33 (18.4) | 50 (17.6) | 79 (36.7) | 85 (24.3) | ||
| College/university or post-graduate degree | 1023 (51.3) | 111 (75.5) | 172 (79.6) | 142 (47.2) | 100 (33.0) | 139 (77.7) | 206 (72.5) | 89 (41.4) | 64 (18.3) | ||
| Marital status, n (%) | |||||||||||
| Single | 306 (15.3) | 111 (74.0) | 26 (12.0) | 18 (6.0) | 4 (1.3) | <0.001 | 116 (63.7) | 18 (6.3) | 6 (2.8)* | 7 (2.0) | <0.001 |
| Married, consensual union | 1600 (79.9) | 39 (26.0) | 189 (87.1) | 268 (89.0) | 277 (91.7) | 65 (35.7) | 262 (91.6) | 189 (87.9) | 311 (88.9) | ||
| Widowed, divorced, separated | 97 (4.8) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.9) | 15 (5.0) | 21 (7.0) | 1 (0.5) | 6 (2.1) | 20 (9.3) | 32 (9.1) | ||
| Type of work, n (%) | |||||||||||
| Office work, intellectual work, services, student | 1253 (62.8) | 125 (84.5) | 173 (79.4) | 212 (70.4) | 123 (41.0) | <0.001 | 163 (90.1)* | 244 (86.2)* | 158 (73.5)* | 55 (15.8)* | <0.001 |
| Farming, cattle-raising, forestry, industrial, mining, construction or other similar type of work | 167 (8.4) | 11 (7.4) | 35 (16.1) | 52 (17.3) | 40 (13.3) | 3 (1.7) | 13 (4.6) | 11 (5.1) | 2 (0.6) | ||
| Do not work, pensioned | 574 (28.8) | 12 (8.1) | 10 (4.6) | 37 (12.3) | 137 (45.7) | 15 (8.3) | 26 (9.2) | 46 (21.4) | 291 (83.6) | ||
| Asset index, n(%) | |||||||||||
| Low | 836 (41.8) | 75 (50.3) | 61 (28.1) | 120 (39.7) | 154 (51.3) | <0.001 | 77 (42.5) | 86 (30.0) | 95 (44.0) | 168 (48.3) | <0.001 |
| Medium | 766 (38.3) | 59 (39.6) | 90 (41.5) | 123 (40.7) | 94 (31.3) | 77 (42.5) | 112 (39.0) | 74 (34.3) | 137 (39.4) | ||
| High | 398 (19.9) | 15 (10.1) | 66 (30.4) | 59 (19.5) | 52 (17.3) | 27 (14.9) | 89 (31.0) | 47 (21.8) | 43 (12.4) | ||
| B. Lifestyle risk factors | |||||||||||
| Smoking, n (%) | |||||||||||
| Never | 1527 (75.7) | 106 (70.7) | 131 (59.8) | 123 (40.5) | 143 (47.0) | <0.001 | 177 (97.3)* | 284 (99.0)* | 214 (98.2)* | 349 (99.1)* | Fisher's exact = 0.081 |
| Former | 55 (2.7) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (3.2) | 13 (4.3) | 35 (11.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Current (occasional) | 29 (1.4) | 4 (2.7) | 8 (3.7) | 9 (3.0) | 5 (1.6) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.6) | ||
| Current (daily) | 405 (20.1) | 40 (26.7) | 73 (33.3) | 159 (52.3) | 121 (39.8) | 5 (2.7) | 2 (0.7) | 4 (1.8) | 1 (0.3) | ||
| Categorical PA levels, n (%) | |||||||||||
| Low | 616 (30.8) | 38 (25.3) | 84 (38.9) | 117 (38.9) | 69 (22.8) | <0.001 | 76 (42.7)* | 119 (41.6) | 62 (28.6) | 51 (14.6)* | <0.001 |
| Moderate | 1040 (52.0) | 71 (47.3) | 101 (46.8) | 139 (46.2) | 170 (56.1) | 84 (47.2) | 136 (47.6) | 116 (53.5) | 223 (63.7) | ||
| High | 345 (17.2) | 41 (27.3) | 31 (14.4) | 45 (15.0) | 64 (21.1) | 18 (10.1) | 31 (10.8) | 39 (18.0) | 76 (21.7) | ||
| Mean number of days of vegetable consumption in a typical week, median days (P25, P75) | |||||||||||
| 7 (7,7) | 7 (6, 7) | 7 (7, 7) | 7 (7, 7) | 7 (7, 7) | 0.002a | 7 (7, 7) | 7 (7, 7) | 7 (7, 7) | 7 (7, 7) | <0.001a | |
| Consuming at least three servings of vegetables on the days eating vegetables, n (%) | |||||||||||
| Yes | 742 (37.3) | 49 (32.9) | 78 (35.9) | 100 (33.2) | 123 (40.9) | 0.195 | 65 (36.1) | 103 (37.1) | 79 (36.4) | 145 (41.9) | 0.427 |
| Mean number of days of fruit consumption in a typical week, median days (P25, P75) | |||||||||||
| 7 (4, 7) | 5 (3, 7) | 6 (3, 7) | 5 (3, 7) | 6 (3, 7) | 0.559a | 7 (4, 7)* | 7 (5, 7)* | 7 (5, 7)* | 7 (5, 7)* | 0.082a | |
| Consuming at least two servings of fruit on the days eating fruit, n (%) | |||||||||||
| Yes | 1057 (54.3) | 79 (54.9) | 104 (49.1) | 146 (50.0) | 128 (44.3) | 0.200 | 115 (64.2) | 164 (59.0)* | 125 (58.1) | 196 (57.8)* | 0.521 |
| Times purchasing out in the previous week, median times (P25, P75) | |||||||||||
| 7 (1, 11) | 11 (6, 15) | 10 (6, 14) | 8 (5, 12) | 5 (0, 10) | <0.001 | 10 (4, 14)* | 7 (4, 12)* | 6 (1, 10)* | 1 (0, 5)* | <0.001 | |
p-values representing age group comparison in each gender group. * There are statistically significant (P < 0.05) differences between men and women in each age group. a Chi-squared test with ties.