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Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 Apr 6;63(7):569–574. doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.083238

Table 1.

Characteristics of dentate study subjects aged 30 years and older in Germany (2001), Finland (2000), UK (1998) and Australia (2002)

	Germany	Finland	UK	Australia
Study subjects (n)	1454	5078	4064	2292
Male (%)	48.8	48.2	49.6	50.3
Age group (%)
30–44 years	38.0	39.9	44.4	43.0
45–59 years	34.0	38.8	32.4	33.4
60+ years	28.0	21.4	23.2	23.6
Household income (%)
Quartile 1 (low)	26.9	24.3	25.4	30.4
Quartile 2	25.6	25.1	25.4	23.9
Quartile 3	29.1	25.3	23.3	18.3
Quartile 4 (high)	18.4	25.3	25.8	27.5