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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Int. 2016 May 3;92-93:416–421. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2016.03.028

Table 1.

The weighted descriptive statistics of the study participants (n=11847)

Variables Value
Sociodemographic characteristics
    Age (years, mean ± SD) 59.3±10.6
    Sex (%)
        Male 48.0
        Female 52.0
    Educational level (%)
        Low 63.5
        Medium 22.3
        High 14.2
    BMI (kg/m2, mean ± SD) 21.5±2.1
    Smoking status (%)
        Current 27.2
        Former 9.0
        Never 63.8
    Pack-years of cigarette for current smokers 32.3 ± 24.1
    Drinking frequency (%)
        >1/month 24.5
        <1/month 7.8
        Never 67.7
    Residence (%)
        Urban 32.4
        Rural 67.6
Type of heating energy (%)
        Central heating 11.6
        Clean (solar energy, electricity, natural gas) 24.3
        Unclean (coal or biomass) 46.3
        Other 17.9
Type of cooking energy (%)
        Clean (solar energy, electricity, natural gas) 53.7
        Unclean (coal or biomass) 45.7
        Other 0.6
Diabetes
    Prevalence of T2DM (%) 15.8
    Fasting glucose (mmol/L, mean ± SD) 6.1±2.0
    HbA1c (%, mean ± SD) 5.2±0.8

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; BMI, body mass index; HbA1c, glycosylated hemoglobin, %.

All numbers were weighted with the inverse probability weights, which were constructed by estimating a logic regression of whether the individual participated in the blood drawn.