Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Prediction and Outcome Variables.

	Baseline wave		All waves
	Women	Men	Women	Men	SD (all)
Sample size	3,393	2,495	12,047	8,829
YOL, years	14.29	11.52	13.43	10.69	7.25
YHL, years	9.71	8.36	9.11	7.69	6.66
YABL, years	9.96	8.88	9.21	8.04	6.92
YHABL, years	7.47	6.79	6.87	6.12	6.32
Age, years	72.52	73.28	73.80	74.62	5.61
Healthy at baseline *	0.73	0.76	0.76	0.77	0.42
Able at baseline *	0.90	0.94	0.87	0.91	0.32
Healthy and Able at baseline *	0.70	0.74	0.70	0.73	0.45
Short of breath *	0.42	0.34	0.41	0.32	0.48
Diabetes *	0.11	0.14	0.10	0.14	0.32
Number of prescription meds	2.48	2.17	2.55	2.29	2.23
Current smoker *	0.12	0.11	0.12	0.09	0.31
Former smoker *	0.30	0.57	0.30	0.58	0.49
Never smoked *	0.57	0.32	0.58	0.33	0.50
Years since quittinga	19.08	22.62	19.01	22.81	13.70
Blocks walked per week	32.00	49.38	29.57	45.85	52.59
Number of IADL difficulties	0.44	0.26	0.49	0.36	0.90
Feeling about life (1-7)	2.36	2.17	2.46	2.31	0.91
MI or stroke *	0.12	0.24	0.12	0.24	0.38

Note. Table entries are mean values unless otherwise denoted. “*” indicates the proportion who have the indicated characteristic. YOL = years of life; YHL = years of healthy life; YABL = years of able life; YHABL = years of healthy and able life; IADL = Instrumental activities of daily living; MI = myocardial infarction.

^aFormer smokers only.