Table 1.

Participant characteristics among responders reporting a cardiovascular disease.

Socio-demographic factors	N	%a	95% CI	Meana	SD
Gender	3087
Female	1306	43.8	41.8–45.9
Male	1781	56.2	54.1–58.2
Age (years)	3116			64.3	15.0
25–44	224	10.8	9.4–12.4
45–64	1037	34.5	32.6–36.5
65–84	1657	47.5	45.5–49.6
≥85	198	7.1	6.1–8.3
Educational attainment	2933
High	464	15.1	13.7–16.7
Medium	1421	47.6	45.5–49.7
Low	1048	37.3	35.2–39.4
Cohabitation	3051
Cohabitating	2138	61.8	59.6–63.9
Live alone	913	38.2	36.1–40.4
Ethnic background	3116
Danish	2996	93.4	92.0–94.6
Non-Danish	120	6.6	5.4–8.0
Health literacy measures
Understanding health information well enough to know what to do	2805			2.92	0.62
Ability to actively engage with healthcare providers	2812			2.97	0.64
Health behaviours
Physical activity	2998
High activity	1.269	40.6	38.5–42.7
Moderate activity	943	31.4	29.5–33.4
Low activity	786	28.0	26.1–30.0
Dietary quality score	2846
Healthy	531	17.6	16.0–19.3
Average	1911	67.1	65.1–69.1
Unhealthy	404	15.3	13.8–17.0
Smoking habits	2995
Never smoked	950	33.0	31.0–35.0
Former smoker	1343	42.3	40.2–44.3
Occasional smoker	63	2.5	1.8–3.3
Daily smoker	639	22.3	20.6–24.2
Alcohol consumption	2809
Non-high risk consumption	2582	92.4	91.1–93.4
High risk consumption	227	7.6	6.6–8.9
Body mass index	3019
Underweight	49	1.8	1.3–2.5
Normal weight	1154	39.7	37.6–41.8
Overweight	1188	37.1	35.1–39.1
Obese	628	21.4	19.7–23.2
Subjective health status
SF-12 summary scores
Physical component summary	2.532			42.5	11.8
Mental component summary	2532			48.0	11.6

CI: confidence interval; SD: standard deviation; SF-12: Short Form Health Survey 12 version 2 (four-week recall)

^aAll percentages and means are weighted based on register data to represent the population of Central Denmark Region, 2013.