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. 2017 Jun 15;56(12):1475–1484. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.56.8006

Table 1.

Clinical Characteristics of Male Participants by Healthy Lifestyle Scores (n=36,703).

Healthy lifestyle scores at baseline p for
trend
0
[n=134
(0.4%)]
1
[n=1,654
(4.5%)]
2
[n=5,967
(16.3%)]
3
[n=11,535
(31.4%)]
4
[n=12,302
(33.5%)]
5
[n=5,111
(13.9%)]
Baseline data
Age (years) 55.8 (8.8) 57.8 (9.3) 60.8 (8.8) 63.1 (8.4) 64.8 (7.6) 66.7 (6.3) <0.001
History of stroke (%) 3.7 2.8 3.5 4.0 4.4 4.6 <0.001
History of heart disease (%) 5.2 4.6 5.5 6.6 7.6 7.2 <0.001
History of renal failure (%) 0 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.65
Comorbidities (%)
Hypertension 50.7 49.0 48.4 47.7 43.3 42.2 <0.001
Diabetes 15.7 14.6 13.5 12.0 12.1 12.9 0.03
Hypercholesterolemia 39.6 34.9 32.8 33.0 32.6 32.8 0.16
BMI (kg/m2) 27.3 (2.2) 25.5 (3.2) 24.5 (3.3) 23.8 (3.0) 22.8 (2.4) 22.2 (1.8) <0.001
Systolic BP (mmHg) 131 (15) 130 (17) 131 (17) 130 (17) 129 (16) 129 (16) 0.02
Diastolic BP (mmHg) 82 (11) 80 (11) 79 (11) 78 (10) 77 (10) 76 (10) <0.001
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL) 55 (14) 55 (15) 57 (15) 58 (15) 59 (16) 61 (15) <0.001
LDL cholesterol (mg/dL) 125 (33) 121 (32) 121 (31) 121 (29) 121 (28) 121 (27) 0.13
Triglycerides (mg/dL) 147 [103, 217] 134 [93, 202] 118 [84, 171] 106 [76, 151] 97 [70, 136] 88 [65, 122] <0.001
FPG (mg/dL) 106 (23) 103 (26) 101 (22) 100 (21) 100 (20) 99 (19) <0.001
Haemoglobin A1c(%) 5.9 (0.7) 5.8 (0.9) 5.8 (0.7) 5.7 (0.7) 5.7 (0.7) 5.7 (0.6) 0.01
Serum Cr (mg/dL) 0.77 (0.11) 0.78 (0.11) 0.78 (0.11) 0.78 (0.11) 0.79 (0.10) 0.80 (0.10) <0.001
eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m2) 85 (15) 82 (15) 81 (14) 79 (14) 78 (13) 76 (12) <0.001
Follow-up data
Healthy lifestyle scores in
2009 (%)
0 33.6 3.9 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0
1 43.3 47.6 8.3 1.1 0.2 0.0
2 17.2 35.2 51.4 14.1 2.6 0.4
3 6.0 11.2 31.5 56.1 20.1 5.9
4 0.0 1.9 7.6 25.2 61.6 32.1
5 0.0 0.1 0.9 3.4 15.5 61.6
Incidence of proteinuria (%) 6.7 5.7 4.7 4.2 3.3 3.1 <0.001

Numbers are mean (standard deviation) or proportion. For triglycerides, median and the 25th and 75th percentile are shown.

BMI: body mass index, BP: blood pressure, HDL: high-density lipoprotein, LDL: low-density lipoprotein, FPG: fasting plasma glucose, Cr: creatinine, eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate