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. 2013 Jul 17;13:278. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-278

Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics of the KORA F4 sample

 
Current smokers
Occasional smokers
Former smokers
Never smokers
Total
p-value
    n=468 (15.2%) n=79 (2.6%) n=1246 (40.6%) n=1278 (41.6%) n=3071 (100%)  
Sex
Women
210 (44.9%)
41 (51.9%)
517 (41.5%)
824 (64.5%)
1592 (51.8%)
<0.0001 b
Men
258 (55.1%)
38 (48.1%)
729 (58.5%)
454 (33.5%)
1479 (48.2%)
 
Age
 
49.68 (10.5)
48.84 (12.2)
57.40 (13.2)
57.49 (13.5)
56.04 (13.3)
<0.0001 c
Educationa
Basic education
237 (50.6%)
37 (47.4%)
648 (52.1%)
661 (51.8%)
1583 (51.6%)
0.32 b
Secondary education
134 (28.6%)
22 (28.2%)
301 (24.2%)
300 (23.5%)
757 (24.7%)
 
Higher education
97 (20.7%)
19 (24.4%)
296 (23.8%)
316 (24.8%)
728 (23.7%)
 
Alcohol consumption
low risk (women: ≤20 g, men: ≤40 g alcohol per day)
382(81.6%)
69 (87.3%)
1031 (82.7%)
1160 (90.8%)
2642 (86.0%)
<0.0001 b
elevated risk (women: >20 g, men: >40 g alcohol per day)
86 (18.4%)
10 (12.7%)
215 (17.3%)
118 (9.2%)
429 (14.0%)
 
Physical activity
active
228 (48.7%)
51 (64.4%)
699 (56.1%)
693 (54.2%)
1671 (54.4%)
0.01 b
  inactive 240 (51.3%) 28 (35.4%) 547 (43.9%) 585 (45.8%) 1400 (45.6%)  

Data are presented as n (%)/mean (standard deviation). Any discrepancies in percentages are due to rounding.

an=3 participants with missing information on school education. These subjects were excluded from the regression analysis.

bp-value based on Chi2-test.

cp-value based on ANOVA.