Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of men with and without adverse childhood experiences using historical childhood data (n = 839) and questionnaire-based data from adulthood (n = 2311) from the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor study baseline examinations in 1984.

Covariates	Mean (SD) or proportion (%)
	Historical childhood data (n = 839)			Questionnaire-based childhood data (n = 2311)
	Men with adverse childhood experiences (n = 207)	Men without adverse childhood experiences (n = 632)	P-values for the difference between groups	Men with adverse childhood experiences (n = 2008)	Men without adverse childhood experiences (n = 303)	P-values for the difference between groups
Age group (%)
42	18.4	26.7	0.074	12.9	15.2	0.021
48	19.8	19.9		13.2	15.8
54	48.8	43.5		59.8	50.5
60	13.0	9.8		14.0	18.5
Educational level (%)
(1) less than elementary	10.1	6.7	0.341	10.0	8.4	<0.001
(2) elementary	41.5	42.9		48.9	34.7
(3) full or some secondary	43.0	42.7		35.2	40.3
(4) high school or above	5.3	7.8		5.9	16.8
Occupation (%)
(1) farmer	10.1	12.2	0.784	15.8	13.5	<0.001
(2) blue collar	46.4	45.6		45.1	32.0
(3) white collar	43.5	42.7		39.0	54.8
Childhood SEP (%)
(1) low	34.8	29.0	0.003	32.8	20.8	<0.001
(2) middle	47.8	41.8		43.7	37.0
(3) high	17.4	29.3		23.6	42.2
Smoking history (pack/years)	202.5 (327.9)	151.1 (289.0)	0.048	188.4 (354.9)	180.0 (327.6)	0.703
Body mass index (kg/m2)	26.6 (3.5)	26.9 (3.7)	0.294	26.9 (3.6)	26.6 (3.5)	0.127
Leisure time physical activity (h/year)	130.1 (157.3)	121.4 (152.7)	0.484	113.1 (141.5)	110.7 (122.9)	0.784
Alcohol consumption (g/week)	100.5 (219.0)	90.1 (122.0)	0.395	89.9 (149.6)	78.4 (96.6)	0.195
Median	51.1	46.9		44.0	36.7
Maximum	2853.0	867.9		2853.0	633.0
Income (marks/year)	80 561.6 (51384.1)	85 096.4 (55045.9)	0.300	776160.0 (50958.9)	94 723.9 (63847.4)	<0.001
Median	70 000.0	76 000.0		69 000.0	81 000.0
Maximum	360 000.0	550 000.0		550 000.0	550 000.0

SEP: socioeconomic position.