Table 3.
Characteristics of study participants and causes of death by predicted class membership
| BC | P-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class I | Class II | ||||
| (N = 1466) | (N = 332) | ||||
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Age, years | <0.0001 | ||||
| Mean | 57.6 | 60.5 | |||
| SD | 10.9 | 15.0 | |||
| SES | <0.0001 | ||||
| White collar | 554 | 37.8 | 94 | 28.3 | |
| Blue collar | 739 | 50.4 | 155 | 46.7 | |
| Unemployed or missing | 173 | 11.8 | 83 | 25.0 | |
| Fasting status | 0.55 | ||||
| Fasting | 827 | 56.4 | 200 | 60.2 | |
| Non-fasting | 477 | 32.5 | 91 | 27.4 | |
| Missing | 162 | 11.1 | 41 | 12.4 | |
| Glucose (mmol/l) | 0.08 | ||||
| Mean | 5.1 | 5 | |||
| SD | 1.3 | 1.1 | |||
| TG (mmol/l) | 0.32 | ||||
| Mean | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||
| SD | 0.8 | 0.8 | |||
| TC (mmol/l) | 0.34 | ||||
| Mean | 5.9 | 6.0 | |||
| SD | 1.2 | 1.2 | |||
| BC death | 342 | 23.3 | 83 | 25.0 | 0.52 |
| CV death | 129 | 8.8 | 50 | 15.1 | <0.0001 |
| Other death | 60 | 4.1 | 197 | 59.3 | <0.0001 |