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. 2018 Jan 12;3:4. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.12583.1

Table 1. Sample characteristics of 11 SpiroMeta and 12 CHARGE studies contributing to the discovery analyses and three studies contributing to the replication analyses.

Discovery studies
SpiroMeta studies Total
sample
n (%) Male Ever smokers,
n (%)
Age, mean
(SD)
FEV 1, litres.
mean (SD)
FVC, litres.
mean (SD)
FEV 1/FVC,
mean (SD)
1958 British Birth Cohort (B58C) 5270 2961 (56·2%) 2866 (53·3%) 44·00 (0·00) 3·35 (0·79) 4·29 (1·03) 0·788 (0·09)
Generation Scotland (GS:SFHS) 8164 3413 (41·8%) 3806 (46·6%) 51·59 (13·33) 2·78 (0·87) 3·91 (1·01) 0·710 (0·12)
Cooperative Health Research in the
Region of Augsburg (KORA F4)
1447 701 (48·5%) 900 (62·2%) 54·82 (9·66) 3·24 (0·85) 4·20 (1·04) 0·771 (0·07)
CROATIA-Korcula cohort
(KORCULA)
791 296 (36·8%) 418 (52·0%) 55·56 (13·69) 2·72 (0·83) 3·29 (0·95) 0·829 (0·10)
Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
(LBC1936)
974 501 (50·6%) 554 (55·9%) 69·55 (0·84) 2·38 (0·67) 3·04 (0·87) 0·787 (0·10)
Study of Health in Pomerania
(SHIP)
1681 831 (49·4%) 955 (56·8%) 52·25 (13·43) 3·29 (0·88) 3·88 (1·03) 0·848 (0·07)
Northern Swedish Population
Health Study (NSPHS)
880 407 (46·3%) 122 (13·9%) 49·13 (19·96) 2·93 (0·90) 3·53 (1·06) 0·831 (0·09)
Prospective Investigation of the
Vasculature in Uppsala Seniors
(PIVUS)
836 413 (49·4%) 426 (51·0%) 70·20 (0·17) 2·44 (0·68) 3·20 (0·87) 0·76 (0·10)
Swiss study on Air Pollution and
Lung Disease in adults (SAPALDIA)
2707 1379 (50·9%) 1399 (51·7%) 40·86 (10·92) 3·65 (0·83) 4·62 (1·04) 0·794 (0·07)
The Cardiovascular Risk in Young
Finns Study (YFS)
434 198 (47·3%) 186 (44·4%) 38·88 (5·07) 3·73 (0·75) 4·68 (0·99) 0·800 (0·06)
Finnish Twin Cohort (FTC) 214 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 68·73 (3·31) 2·18 (0·47) 2·79 (0·58) 0·786 (0·08)
Total 23,398
CHARGE studies (European
Ancestry)
Total
sample
n (%) Male Ever smokers,
n (%)
Age, mean
(SD)
FEV 1, litres.
mean (SD)
FVC, litres.
mean (SD)
FEV 1/FVC,
mean (SD)
AGES-Reykjavik study (AGES) 1566 649 (41·4%) 900 (57·5%) 76·1 (5·62) 2·13 (0·70) 2·87 (0·86) 0·744 (0·09)
Atherosclerosis Risk in
Communities Study (ARIC)
10,680 5015 (47·0%) 631 (59·1%) 54·3 (5·70) 2·94 (0·77) 3·98 (0·98) 0·738 (0·07)
Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) 3967 1737 (43·8%) 2089 (52·7%) 72·8 (5·55) 2·11 (0·66) 3·00 (0·86) 0·702 (0·10)
NHLBI Family Heart Study (FAMHS) 1651 718 (43·5%) 698 (42·3) 53·5 (12·60) 2·91 (0·853) 3·89 (1·05) 0·746 (0·08)
Framingham Heart Study (FHS) 7113 3241 (45·5%) 3780 (53·1) 50·7 (14·12) 3·10 (0·925) 4·09 (1·12) 0·755 (0·08)
Health Aging and Body
Composition Study (HABC)
1457 786 (53·2%) 831 (56·5%) 73·7 (2·83) 2·31 (0·66) 3·11 (0·81) 0·741 (0·08)
Health2006 Study 2714 1217 (44·8%) 1577 (58·1%) 49·4 (13·04) 3·13 (0·82) 3·99 (0·99) 0·784 (0·07)
Health2008 Study 687 297 (43·2%) 384 (55·9%) 46·7 (8·22) 3·27 (0·79) 4·13 (0·97) 0·791 (0·06)
Inter99 Study (without pack-years) 1115 549 (49·2%) 1115 (100%) 47·2 (7·76) 3·26 (0·71) 4·12 (0·92) 0·796 (0·07)
Inter99 Study (with pack-years) 4179 2027 (48·5%) 2307 (55·2%) 45·8 (7·95) 3·21 (0·76) 4·10 (0·97) 0·788 (0·08)
Multi-Ethnic Study of
Atherosclerosis (MESA)
1323 654 (49·4%) 751 (56·8%) 66·0 (9·8) 2·57 (0·76) 3·51 (0·10) 0·733 (0·08)
The Rotterdam Study (RS) 546 299 (54·8%) 382 (70·0%) 79·4 (5·00) 2·27 (0·68) 3·03 (0·86) 0·750 (0·08)
Total 36,998
CHARGE studies (African
Ancestry)
Total
Sample
n (%) Male Ever smokers,
n (%)
Age, mean
(SD)
FEV 1, litres.
mean (SD)
FVC, litres.
mean (SD)
FEV 1/FVC,
mean (SD)
Atherosclerosis Risk in
Communities Study (ARIC)
3180 1183 (37·2%) 1680 (59·1%) 53·6 (5·83) 2·48 (0·65) 3·25 (0·82) 0·765 (0·08)
Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) 624 232 (37·2%) 340 (54·4%) 73·2 (5·49) 1·76 (0·58) 2·48 (0·80) 0·717 (0·11)
Health Aging and Body
Composition Study (HABC)
943 433 (45·9%) 543 (57·6%) 73·4 (2·90) 1·96 (0·57) 2·61 (0·71) 0·749 (0·09)
Jackson Heart Study (JHS) 2143 793 (36·8%) 688 (31·9%) 52·8 (12·6) 2·43 (0·72) 3·02 (0·86) 0·807 (0·09)
Multi-Ethnic Study of
Atherosclerosis (MESA)
861 404 (46·9%) 467 (54·2%) 65·6 (9·6) 2·19 (0·66) 2·92 (0·86) 0·756 (0·09)
Total 7721
Replication studies
Study name Total
Sample
n (%) Male Ever smokers,
n (%)
Age, mean
(SD)
FEV 1, litres.
mean (SD)
FVC, litres.
mean (SD)
FEV 1/FVC,
mean (SD)
UK Biobank 98,657 45,166 (45·8%) 56,404 (57·2%) 56·7 (7·92) 2·75 (0·80) 3·67 (0·98) 0·75 (0·07)
UK Household Longitudinal Study
(UKHLS)
7443 3293 (44·2%) 4509 (60·5%) 53·10 (15·94) 2·89 (0·90) 3·83 (1·08) 0·753 (0·09)
Netherlands Epidemiology of
Obesity study (NEO)
5456 2672 (48·0%) 3674 (66·0%) 55·9 (5·9) 3·26 (0·80) 4·26 (1·02) 0·77 (0·07)
Total 111,556