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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2011 May;21(5):358–366. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.02.005

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of Study Participants, mean (SE) or % (n)

Men Women
Cases (n=955) Non-cases (n=55,148) Cases (n=1799) Non-cases (n=66,474)
Age, yr 56.9 (0.31) 54.4 (0.04) § 56.0 (0.20) 51.4 (0.03) §
BMI, kg/m2 26.0 (0.10) 23.6 (0.01) § 26.8 (0.09) 23.8 (0.01) §
Waist, cm 91.3 (0.27) 84.7 (0.04) § 85.6 (0.21) 77.2 (0.03) §
Hip, cm 98.2 (0.21) 94.3 (0.03) § 101.2 (0.20) 95.6 (0.03) §
WHR 0.93 (0.002) 0.90 (0.0002) § 0.85 (0.001) 0.81 (0.0002) §
Education
 College+ 24.5 (229) 23.6 (12,818) 10.3 (186) 13.9 (9,267) §
 <Middle school 7.3 (68) 6.3 (3,422) 35.7 (643) 19.3 (12,823)
 Middle/high school 68.2 (638) 70.1 (38,141) 53.9 (970) 66.8 (44,372)
Income
 High income 9.7 (92) 9.7 (5,352)* 28.0 (504) 34.4 (22,883) §
 Low income 51.2 (488) 55.2 (30,369) 33.2 (598) 26.7 (17,744)
 Middle income 39.1 (373) 35.1 (19,307) 38.7 (697) 38.9 (25,832)
Occupation
 Professional 28.9 (276) 26.1 (14,375)* 25.3 (455) 29.0 (19,275) §
 Clerical 23.5 (224) 21.9 (12,055) 18.8 (339) 20.8 (13,810)
 Manual laborer 47.6 (454) 52.0 (28,654) 55.5 (998) 49.9 (33,161)
 Housewife N/A N/A 0.39 (7) 0.34 (228)
Current smoker 51.7 (494) 59.8 (32,988) § 2.5 (44) 2.2 (1,490)
Ever smoker 65.6 (626) 70.2 (38,732) 3.5 (62) 2.6 (1,721) *
Current drinker 24.8 (237) 29.9 (16,477) 1.8 (32) 2.0 (1,335)
Tertiles of total physical activity (mets)
 Tertile 1 36.7 (350) 32.9 (18,162) * 32.0 (575) 33.0 (21,956)
 Tertile 2 31.6 (302) 33.0 (18,206) 34.7 (625) 33.0 (21,909)
 Tertile 3 31.7 (303) 34.1 (18,780) 33.0 (599) 34.0 (22,609)
Energy intake, kcal 1935.5 (16.03) 1917.2 (2.06) 1,696.3 (9.9) 1,680.0 (1.6)
Family history of diabetes 26.0 (246) 16.0 (8,782) § 29.1 (502) 15.2 (9,344) §
*

p<0.05

p<0.01

p<0.001

§

p<0.0001

Energy intake natural logarithmically transformed before analyses