Table 2. Subject characteristics by centre.
| Overall | North/West |
East |
South |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leuven | Malmo | Manchester | Lodz | Szeged | Tartu | Florence | Santiago | |||
| Mean (SD) | P valuea | |||||||||
| Weight (kg) | 83.3 (13.7) | 82.1 (13.0) | 85.4 (13.2) | 84.1 (13.3) | 82.1 (12.8) | 86.5 (14.2) | 87.2 (16.2) | 79.7 (13.3) | 79.8 (11.5) | <0.001 |
| PASE score (0-1100) | 196.2 (91.7) | 191.7 (86.7) | 180.3 (80.1) | 219.6 (84.0) | 181.5 (93.6) | 252.6 (96.2) | 204.0 (84.8) | 155.3 (76.3) | 184.0 (95.6) | <0.001 |
| SF36 Physical score (0-100) | 50.0 (8.2) | 50.0 (7.9) | 51.8 (7.7) | 51.2 (7.6) | 47.9 (8.3) | 49.8 (8.4) | 45.6 (9.7) | 52.6 (6.1) | 51.3 (6.9) | <0.001 |
| Tinetti: time taken from sitting to standing (s) | 12.7 (4.2) | 12.9 (3.3) | 13.4 (5.8) | 12.0 (3.2) | 12.9 (6.1) | 11.7 (3.2) | 13.5 (4.0) | 10.7 (2.6) | 14.4 (3.1) | <0.001 |
| PPT: time taken to walk 50 feet (s) | 13.6 (3.4) | 13.7 (2.3) | 13.4 (3.1) | 13.9 (3.0) | 14.2 (3.4) | 13.8 (3.3) | 14.6 (3.9) | 10.5 (1.9) | 14.7 (3.8) | <0.001 |
| % | ||||||||||
| Walking or cycling for ½ hour or more / day | 65.3 | 47.7 | 78.9 | 65.1 | 70.9 | 76.1 | 63.7 | 54.1 | 67.6 | <0.001 |
| Ever smoked (yes vs no) | 70.1 | 64.4 | 68.8 | 56.6 | 82.1 | 64.9 | 74.5 | 77.1 | 72.5 | <0.001 |
| Currently smoke (yes vs no) | 21.0 | 17.2 | 16.5 | 11.4 | 25.7 | 21.3 | 29.2 | 23.1 | 23.0 | <0.001 |
| Alcohol consumption ≥ 1day/week | 56.2 | 73.3 | 64.7 | 76.7 | 23.7 | 56.7 | 31.3 | 54.3 | 68.0 | <0.001 |
| At least one comorbidity | 50.3 | 46.1 | 38.6 | 39.0 | 66.7 | 58.9 | 48.7 | 50.5 | 52.9 | <0.001 |
| Previous fracture since 25 (yes vs no) | 25.9 | 22.6 | 21.3 | 25.0 | 26.6 | 30.6 | 35.8 | 22.7 | 22.5 | <0.001 |
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Test for differences between centres. ANOVA for continuous, chi-squared test for dichotomous measures
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