Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of participants included in analyses (n = 2,619).

Characteristic	n/median/mean	Percentage/range
Age (years)	50	18–90
Gender
Male	1,253	47.8
Female	1,336	52.2
Household income
Low (<20,000 AUD)	802	30.6
Middle (20,00–60,00 AUD)	1,270	48.5
High (>60,000 AUD)	547	20.9
Individual education
Post-secondary education	1,734	54.6
No post-secondary education	1,441	45.4
Individual employment status
Currently in the workforce	1,387	53
Not currently in the workforce	1,232	47
Physical Activity
Sedentary	775	29.6
Low exercise	919	35.1
Moderate exercise	668	25.5
High exercise	257	9.8
Smoking
Current	417	16.3
Former	980	37.4
Never	1,212	46.3
Drinking
Not at risk	1,954	74.6
At risk	665	25.4
Area-level SEP
Area-level high school education (%)	71.5	49.7–88.5
Area-level weekly income (AUD)	621	361–1,323
Are-level unemployment rate (%)	6.3	0–14.8
MetS prevalence
Wave 1 (n = 3,175)	1,150	36.2
Wave 2 (n = 2,492)	942	37.8
Wave 3 (n = 1963)	780	39.7
MetS incidence
Between Wave 1–Wave 2		16.0
Between Wave 2–Wave 3		20.0
Between Wave 1–Wave 3		17.5
MetS reversal
Between Wave 1–Wave 2		25.7
Between Wave 2–Wave 3		25.1
Between Wave 1–Wave 3		22.2
Mean number of MetS components
Wave 1	2.06
Wave 2	2.11
Wave 3	2.16