TABLE 1.

Sample size, length of follow-up, age at recruitment, and frequency of total and cause-specific mortality in the EPIC, by country and study center¹

	Total participants, n		Age at recruitment,2 y		Mean person-years follow-up		Mortality rate per 1000 person-years3		Inactive, %		Moderately inactive, %		Moderately active, %		Active, %
EPIC center	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F
France		17,099		52.8 ± 6.5		15.1		3.6		17.1		41.0		32.9		9.0
Italy	12,533	29,697	50.3 ± 7.5	50.7 ± 8.1	12.6	12.1	6.8	4.7	13.5	36.9	36.0	39.1	23.8	14.9	26.7	9.2
Spain	14,763	24,355	50.7 ± 7.2	48.3 ± 8.3	13.5	13.7	6.2	5.0	21.3	48.5	30.0	35.2	27.2	12.1	21.6	4.2
United Kingdom
General	9931	13,164	58.4 ± 9.3	57.0 ± 9.3	13.1	13.6	11.1	7.6	33.8	34.2	27.9	35.5	20.6	19.3	17.7	11.1
Health conscious	7989	25,562	43.2 ± 12.9	41.0 ± 12.3	12.6	12.6	7.7	5.3	16.5	15.8	33.8	38.1	25.0	27.4	24.7	18.8
Netherlands	7140	23,142	43.0 ± 11.0	51.8 ± 11.2	12.6	12.9	8.2	7.0	8.5	7.5	22.7	26.3	24.7	26.9	44.2	39.3
Greece	9747	14,527	52.4 ± 12.7	53.6 ± 12.3	9.3	9.9	10.9	4.6	33.0	54.0	26.5	25.9	26.7	16.1	13.9	4.0
Germany
Heidelberg	10,608	12,144	52.2 ± 7.1	49.2 ± 8.6	11.3	11.4	10.3	5.8	10.3	11.9	33.8	35.9	29.1	28.8	27.0	23.3
Potsdam	9836	15,099	52.1 ± 8.0	49.0 ± 9.3	11.2	11.3	10.0	6.0	21.5	21.6	36.2	39.3	24.6	23.9	17.7	15.2
Sweden	9480	14,544	58.7 ± 7.0	57.1 ± 7.8	13.9	14.1	13.9	8.3	21.5	22.3	38.1	38.4	22.9	23.8	17.4	15.5
Denmark	24,953	27,848	56.5 ± 4.3	56.7 ± 4.4	11.5	11.8	11.7	7.3	11.1	10.3	28.8	32.1	23.9	25.1	36.3	32.5
Total	116,980	217,181	52.6 ± 9.6	51.2 ± 10.3	11.1	12.6	11.5	6.3	18.2	25.2	31.2	35.1	24.8	22.4	25.7	17.4

¹EPIC, European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

²Values are means ± SDs.

³Five-year age-standardized death rates (in the European standard population) were computed for the common age range of 50–69 y.