Table 1.
Variables | Total | categorya | |||
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Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | ||
Participants () | 189,793 | 58,034 | 40,243 | 42,512 | 49,004 |
Individual-level | |||||
Age (years, ) | |||||
Marital status (% of married) | 91.0 | 94.7 | 91.1 | 91.8 | 85.9 |
Smoking (%) | |||||
Never | 25.9 | 22.9 | 30.0 | 21.7 | 29.8 |
Former | 5.9 | 6.1 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 7.2 |
Current | 68.2 | 71.0 | 66.0 | 72.5 | 63.0 |
Years of smoking for current smokers () | |||||
Years of smoking for former smokers () | |||||
Cigarettes per day in current smokers | |||||
Cigarettes per day in former smokers | |||||
Passive smoking (%) | 79.7 | 83.2 | 77.1 | 83.1 | 74.9 |
Education, (%) | 72.3 | 70.8 | 69.6 | 74.9 | 70.7 |
Indoor air pollution (%) | |||||
Coal | 27.6 | 29.8 | 17.8 | 33.6 | 27.7 |
Biomass | 35.9 | 25.0 | 43.5 | 45.6 | 34.1 |
No exposure | 36.5 | 45.2 | 38.7 | 20.8 | 38.2 |
Alcohol drinking (%) | 32.6 | 37.4 | 37.5 | 26.4 | 28.4 |
Amount of alcohol consumed (drinks/week) | |||||
Occupational exposure (%) | 4.5 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 6.1 |
Fruit and vegetable consumption (%) | 31.8 | 49.4 | 20.6 | 22.6 | 28.1 |
BMI (, ) | |||||
Hypertension (%) | 26.9 | 24.9 | 22.5 | 31.3 | 29.2 |
Area-level factors | |||||
Urban (%) | 20.2 | 13.7 | 19.3 | 17.2 | 31.2 |
Region | |||||
Northeast (%) | 10.2 | 31.3 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
North (%) | 8.8 | 2.1 | 6.6 | 24.5 | 4.6 |
Northwest (%) | 11.3 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 38.4 | 3.6 |
Southwest (%) | 20.7 | 26.6 | 22.9 | 4.2 | 26.2 |
South-central (%) | 41.1 | 20.5 | 67.4 | 27.6 | 55.9 |
East (%) | 7.9 | 13.8 | 0.0 | 5.4 | 9.7 |
Mean years of education ()b | |||||
Number of deaths | |||||
Nonaccidental | 50,022 | 15,466 | 10,348 | 13,263 | 13,779 |
CVD | 18,859 | 4,797 | 3,567 | 5,433 | 5,062 |
COPD | 11,989 | 4,231 | 2,043 | 2,754 | 2,961 |
Lung cancer | 2,523 | 797 | 452 | 579 | 695 |
Age-adjusted mortality rate (per 100,000 person-years) | 2,538 | 2,355 | 3,077 | 2,695 |
Quartile cutpoints of concentrations were based on mean exposures during 2000–2005 at each baseline cohort site. Minimum, ; 25th percentile, ; 50th percentile, ; 75th percentile, ; maximum, .
Area-level mean years of education.