Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population.
| All (N=60,335) | Men (44,234) | Women (16,101) | ||||
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| Baseline data | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
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| Age (years) | 43.6 | 10.7 | 43.8 | 10.3 | 43.1 | 11.9 |
| Height (cm) | 175.0 | 9.2 | 178.9 | 6.7 | 164.4 | 6.3 |
| Weight (kg) | 79.3 | 16.8 | 85.2 | 14.0 | 63.0 | 12.4 |
| Body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) | 25.7 | 4.3 | 26.6 | 3.9 | 23.3 | 4.4 |
| Waist circumference (cm)* | 89.2 | 14.2 | 94.1 | 11.2 | 73.9 | 11.1 |
| Body fat percentage | 22.7 | 7.3 | 21.4 | 6.7 | 26.3 | 7.5 |
| Fat mass (kg) | 18.4 | 8.3 | 18.8 | 8.4 | 17.2 | 7.8 |
| Fat mass index (kg/m2) | 6.0 | 2.7 | 5.9 | 2.6 | 6.4 | 2.9 |
| Fat-free mass (kg) | 60.9 | 12.1 | 66.3 | 8.4 | 45.8 | 6.5 |
| Fat-free mass index (kg/m2) | 19.7 | 2.7 | 20.7 | 2.1 | 16.9 | 2.1 |
| Cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max, ml/kg/min)* | 38.6 | 9.1 | 40.4 | 8.8 | 33.2 | 7.8 |
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
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| Obesity (BMI>30kg/m2) | 8,091 | 13.4 | 6,862 | 15.5 | 1,229 | 7.6 |
| Central obesity (WC>102cm in men, | 7,887 | 17.6 | 6,721 | 19.9 | 1,166 | 10.7 |
| <88cm in women)* | ||||||
| Current smoker, n (%) | 9,517 | 15.8 | 8,034 | 18.2 | 1,483 | 9.2 |
| Excessive alcohol drinking, n (%)† | 4,628 | 7.7 | 3,242 | 7.3 | 1,386 | 8.6 |
| Inactivity, n (%)† | 20,289 | 33.6 | 14,784 | 33.4 | 5,505 | 34.2 |
| Hypertension, n (%) | 16,952 | 28.1 | 14,118 | 31.9 | 2,834 | 17.6 |
| Hypercholesterolemia, n (%) | 15,688 | 26.0 | 12,353 | 27.9 | 3,335 | 20.7 |
| Parental history of CVD, n (%) | 15,316 | 25.4 | 11,444 | 25.9 | 3,872 | 24.0 |
| Parental history of cancer, n (%) | 1,874 | 3.1 | 1,228 | 2.8 | 646 | 4.0 |
| Follow-up data | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
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| Follow-up period (years) | 15.2 | 8.5 | 15.8 | 8.5 | 13.6 | 8.2 |
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| Number of deaths, n (%) | 3,780 | 6.3 | 3,218 | 7.3 | 562 | 3.5 |
| Number of CVD deaths, n (%) | 1,359 | 2.3 | 1,208 | 2.7 | 151 | 0.9 |
Data are means (standard deviations), unless otherwise indicated. CVD indicates Cardiovascular disease.
*
All variables have complete data (i.e. N=60,335), except for WC which was available in 44,724 participants and cardiorespiratory fitness that was available in 56,815 participants.
†
Excessive drinking was defined as alcohol drinks >14 per week for men and >7 per week for women; physical inactivity was defined as no leisure-time physical activity during past three months.