Table 1.

Distribution of socio-economic status, marital status, region, diabetes, COPD and obesity diagnoses, by cardiovascular disease (CVD) and case status.

	Cases				Controls
	CVD		No CVD		CVD		No CVD
	N	(%)	N	(%)	N	(%)	N	(%)
Socio-Economic Status
Group 1 (high)	62	12.0	265	9.9	4,080	8.5	26,625	9.8
Group 2	45	8.7	313	11.7	4,891	10.2	29,882	11.1
Group 3	110	21.3	512	19.2	8,188	17.1	49,412	18.3
Group 4	148	28.7	686	25.7	13,291	27.8	72,958	27.0
Group 5 (low)	101	19.6	498	18.7	10,939	22.9	53,583	19.8
Unknown job title	50	9.7	392	14.7	6,398	13.4	37,953	14.0
Marital Status
Non-married	21	4.1	203	7.6	2,674	5.6	21,779	8.1
Married	316	61.2	1,628	61.1	22,168	46.4	127,578	47.2
Divorced	49	9.5	260	9.8	5,261	11.0	28,940	10.7
Widowed	130	25.2	575	21.86	17,684	37.0	92,116	34.1
Region of Residence at Diagnosis/Index Date
Copenhagen (Capital)	77	14.9	365	13.7	5,357	11.2	32,502	12.0
Copenhagen Suburbs	109	21.1	566	21.2	10,009	20.9	58,375	21.6
Other larger citiesa	72	14.0	297	11.1	5,436	11.4	29,762	11.0
Provincial towns	187	36.2	999	37.5	19,258	40.3	105,299	38.9
Rural areas	67	13.0	387	14.5	7,679	16.1	42,084	15.6
Greenland	4	0.8	47	1.8	11	0.0	1,028	0.4
Unknown	0	0.0	5	0.2	37	0.1	1,363	0.5
Diabetes-Related Admissions
No Diabetes	490	95.0	2,646	99.2	43,496	91.0	266,944	98.7
Diabetes	26	5.0	20	0.8	4,291	9.0	3,469	1.3
Obesity-Related Admissions
No Obesity	497	96.3	2,656	99.6	45,483	95.2	268,846	99.4
Obesity	19	3.7	10	0.4	2,304	4.8	1567	0.6
COPDb-Related Admissions
No COPD	467	90.5	2,593	97.3	42,880	89.7	262,642	97.1
COPD	49	9.5	73	2.7	4,907	10.3	7,771	2.9

^aAarhus, Odense

^bCOPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease