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

Table 2.

Clinical Characteristics of Female Participants by Healthy Lifestyle Scores (n=62,701).

Healthy lifestyle scores at baseline p for
trend
0
[n=26
(0.0%)]
1
[n=347
(0.6%)]
2
[n=3,363
(5.4%)]
3
[n=14,318
(22.8%)]
4
[n=31,771
(50.7%)]
5
[n=12,876
(20.5%)]
Baseline data
Age (years) 56.4 (8.4) 56.2 (9.1) 60.0 (8.8) 62.4 (8.1) 63.9 (7.4) 65.9 (5.9) <0.001
History of stroke (%) 0.0 1.7 2.7 2.4 2.2 2.1 0.03
History of heart disease (%) 3.8 2.9 4.7 4.9 4.5 4.5 0.31
History of renal failure (%) 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.001
Comorbidities (%)
Hypertension 53.8 39.5 43.1 43.9 37.0 37.0 <0.001
Diabetes 11.5 7.8 9.3 8.3 5.5 6.6 <0.001
Hypercholesterolemia 38.5 44.1 51.9 52.6 49.8 51.1 0.05
BMI (kg/m2) 27.2 (1.9) 24.6 (4.2) 25.5 (4.0) 24.4 (3.8) 21.8 (2.7) 21.4 (2.1) <0.001
Systolic BP (mmHg) 127 (16) 127 (17) 128 (18) 128 (17) 127 (17) 127 (17) 0.97
Diastolic BP (mmHg) 75 (12) 75 (10) 76 (11) 75 (10) 74 (10) 74 (10) 0.44
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL) 65 (13) 64 (17) 63 (15) 64 (16) 67 (16) 68 (16) 0.06
LDL cholesterol (mg/dL) 127 (42) 125 (35) 131 (32) 131 (30) 129 (29) 129 (29) 0.42
Triglycerides (mg/dL) 128 [91, 209] 113 [79, 166] 104 [76, 144] 96 [71, 132] 88 [66, 119] 85 [65, 115] <0.001
FPG (mg/dL) 101 (15) 97 (16) 97 (20) 95 (17) 93 (14) 94 (14) 0.001
Haemoglobin A1c(%) 5.7 (0.6) 5.6 (0.6) 5.7 (0.6) 5.7 (0.6) 5.7 (0.5) 5.7 (0.5) 0.51
Serum Cr (mg/dL) 0.57 (0.10) 0.58 (0.09) 0.59 (0.09) 0.59 (0.08) 0.60 (0.08) 0.60 (0.08) 0.01
eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m2) 87 (17) 84 (17) 81 (15) 80 (14) 79 (14) 77 (13) <0.001
Follow-up data
Healthy lifestyle scores in 2009 (%)
0 30.8 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1 23.1 44.7 3.4 0.3 0.0 0.0
2 38.5 38.6 47.3 7.8 0.7 0.1
3 3.8 13.8 37.9 57.9 12.8 3.5
4 3.8 2.3 10.4 30.3 71.4 35.3
5 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.8 15.1 61.1
Incidence of proteinuria (%) 0.0 4.3 3.4 3.1 2.2 1.9 <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