Table 1. Descriptive data of the samples from KORA-F4L and KORA-AGE, median (5th, 95th percentile).
| KORA-F4L | KORA-AGE | |||||||
| Men | Women | Men | Women | |||||
| n | 68 | 94 | 86 | 149 | ||||
| Age (years) | 54.00 | (46.00, 63.00) | 55.00 | (46.00, 63.00) | 73.50 | (66.00, 84.75) | 75.00 | (66.00, 85.00) |
| Height (cm) | 176.85 | (167.34, 188.41) | 163.35 | (153.67, 172.24) | 170.50 | (163.00, 181.00) | 158.00 | (149.00, 167.60) |
| Weight (kg) | 84.55 | (67.02, 106.76) | 68.95 | (54.09, 91.05) | 78.00 | (68.25, 97.00) | 68.00 | (53.40, 87.60) |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 27.26 | (22.28, 33.86) | 25.70 | (20.60, 33.62) | 26.62 | (23.69, 33.07) | 27.34 | (21.56, 34.61) |
| Prevalence of cardiac diseases (n, %) | 3 | (4.4) | 8 | (8.5) | 14 | (16.3) | 27 | (18.1) |
| Tidal volume (L) | 1.17 | (0.64, 2.16) | 0.89 | (0.46, 1.57) | 1.07 | (0.44, 1.98) | 0.80 | (0.39, 1.44) |
| Breathing frequency (min−1) | 12.98 | (9.46, 19.92) | 15.55 | (8.96, 22.76) | 14.68 | (10.07, 21.23) | 16.51 | (10.08, 23.63) |
| FEV1 (L) | 3.98 | (3.21, 5.18) | 2.92 | (2.28, 3.73) | 3.25 | (2.42, 4.17) | 2.22 | (1.62, 2.87) |
| FVC (L) | 5.13 | (4.26, 6.56) | 3.70 | (2.80, 4.73) | 4.23 | (3.16, 5.36) | 2.82 | (2.17, 3.70) |
| FEV1/FVC | 0.79 | (0.74, 0.85) | 0.79 | (0.73, 0.86) | 0.76 | (0.69, 0.87) | 0.78 | (0.69, 0.87) |
| FEV1 (pp) | 101.77 | (83.60, 117.39) | 101.22 | (86.09, 122.10) | 104.84 | (85.98, 123.51) | 103.43 | (84.02, 125.59) |
| FVC (pp) | 101.97 | (84.69, 119.60) | 100.66 | (84.95, 123.06) | 103.78 | (82.30, 120.73) | 100.41 | (82.66, 125.75) |
| FEV1/FVC (pp) | 98.69 | (93.06, 105.20) | 99.76 | (92.24, 108.79) | 99.94 | (90.14, 113.90) | 100.37 | (89.90, 112.42) |
Provided are median and 5th, 95th percentile in brackets, pp: percent predicted according to Karrasch et al. [24]. Cardiac diseases are covering myocardial infarction, heart failure, coronary artery disease, and cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation.