TABLE 1.

Baseline characteristics of 29,532 men and 12,176 women by incident AMD status

	Unadjusted		Age-and Sex-Adjusted
Incident AMD	Present	Absent	Present	Absent
Sample (N)	152	41,556	152	41,556
Female (%)	27.63	29.20
Age (y)	54.22 ± 0.92	43.09 ± 0.05*
Follow-up duration (y)	8.02 ± 0.14	7.66 ± 0.01†	8.31 ± 0.16	7.68 ± 0.01*
Education (y)	16.23 ± 0.20	16.34 ± 0.01	16.48 ± 0.20	16.57 ± 0.01
Running distance (km/day)	4.34 ± 0.23	5.33 ± 0.02*	4.60 ± 0.26	5.28 ± 0.02‡
Years of running	13.77 ± 0.61	12.25 ± 0.04†	11.50 ± 0.59	12.32 ± 0.04
10-km performance (m/s)	3.51 ± 0.05	3.82 ± 0.00*	3.76 ± 0.04	3.82 ± 0.00
BMI (kg/m2)	23.23 ± 0.24	23.11 ± 0.01	23.38 ± 0.20	23.34 ± 0.01
Waist circumference (cm)	82.19 ± 0.83	79.95 ± 0.05‡	81.16 ± 0.51	80.16 ± 0.04†
Ever smoked (%)	53.95	36.38*	45.23	39.12
Meat (servings/wk)	2.94 ± 0.21	2.52 ± 0.01†	3.17 ± 0.20	2.55 ± 0.02‡
Fish (servings/wk)	1.67 ± 0.12	1.46 ± 0.01	1.48 ± 0.11	1.47 ± 0.01
Fruit (pieces/wk)	10.69 ± 0.68	11.17 ± 0.04	9.41 ± 0.70	10.92 ± 0.05†
Alcohol (g/day)	11.07 ± 1.39	8.89 ± 0.06†	1.02 ± 0.10	0.91 ± 0.01
Hypertensive medications (%)	9.21	3.34*	4.49	2.55
Lipid-lowering medication (%)	3.95	1.92	1.65	1.61

Data are the mean ± SE. Significance of difference by analysis of covariance:

^*P ≤ 0.0001;

^†P ≤ 0.05;

^‡P ≤ 0.01.