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. 2016 May 2;188(10):E228–E238. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.151201

Table 1:

Demographic characteristics of National Health Service Health Check attendees and nonattendees before and after matching (n = 138 788)

Characteristic Group; % of group before matching* Group; % of group after matching*


Attendees
n = 29 672
Nonattendees
n = 109 116
p value Attendees
n = 29 672
Nonattendees
n = 29 672
p value
Age, yr, mean 53.5 50.1 < 0.001 53.5 53.4 0.2

Sex, female 52.6 50.0 < 0.001 52.6 52.6 0.9

Ethnicity

 White 71.9 54.8 < 0.001 71.9 71.4 0.2

 Nonwhite 7.7 5.0 < 0.001 7.7 7.6 0.6

 Missing 20.2 40.1 < 0.001 20.2 20.9 0.054

IMD

 Quintile 1 (least deprived) 18.0 19.4 < 0.001 18.0 18.1 0.7

 Quintile 2 21.7 21.9 0.5 21.7 21.9 0.5

 Quintile 3 19.7 22.4 < 0.001 19.7 20.0 0.3

 Quintile 4 21.1 20.4 0.004 21.1 20.9 0.5

 Quintile 5 (most deprived) 19.3 15.7 < 0.001 19.3 18.7 0.1

Region

 North East 2.8 2.0 < 0.001 2.8 2.5 0.04

 North West 18.4 13.8 < 0.001 18.4 17.9 0.08

 Yorkshire and Humber 2.7 3.4 < 0.001 2.7 2.7 0.9

 East Midlands 2.8 4.7 < 0.001 2.8 2.8 0.9

 West Midlands 11.4 10.1 < 0.001 11.4 11.4 0.7

 East of England 10.0 10.9 < 0.001 10.0 10.2 0.3

 South West 9.0 11.6 < 0.001 9.0 9.4 0.1

 South Central 14.1 15.4 < 0.001 14.1 14.3 0.5

 London 16.9 13.6 < 0.001 16.9 16.5 0.2

 South East Coast 11.3 14.1 < 0.001 11.3 11.8 0.054

Note: IMD = index of multiple deprivation (2010).

*

Unless indicated otherwise.

Resultant sample size once kernel weight from propensity score matching was applied.