Table 1. Distribution of characteristics of the study population (n = 3,000) by PTSD status.
| PTSD status | ||||
| no PTSD (n = 2,687) | partial PTSD (n = 262) | full PTSD (n = 51) | p value | |
| Age (years) | 56.5±13.4 | 52.5±10.6 | 54.5±11.8 | <0.001 |
| Male sex (%) | 49.5 | 38.2 | 37.3 | <0.001 |
| Low educational level (%) | 59.0 | 57.6 | 64.7 | 0.642 |
| Living alone (%) | 24.1 | 29.4 | 35.3 | 0.036 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 27.6±4.8 | 27.4±5.1 | 28.1±5.7 | 0.897 |
| Current smoking (%) | 17.8 | 21.4 | 9.8 | 0.108 |
| Alcohol consumption (%) | 0.360 | |||
| No | 30.1 | 30.2 | 35.3 | |
| Moderate | 52.7 | 49.6 | 41.2 | |
| High | 17.2 | 20.2 | 23.5 | |
| Physical inactivity (%) | 45.7 | 42.7 | 47.1 | 0.646 |
| Actual hypertension (%) | 31.7 | 24.4 | 27.5 | 0.045 |
| TC/HDL-C | 4.09±1.18 | 4.04±1.20 | 4.02±1.21 | 0.484 |
| History of chronic diseases | 16.8 | 22.9 | 19.6 | 0.041 |
| Depression (PHQ-9) (%) * | 3.9 | 13.0 | 5.9 | <0.001 |
| Depressed mood/exhaustion (DEEX) (%) * | 18.4 | 55.0 | 56.9 | <0.001 |
Distributions are presented as means ± standard deviation for continuous, p values from χ2 test or F test for association with PTSD,
*
only n = 2,528.