Table 1.
Participant Characteristics. The Fenland Study 2005 to 2015
| Women | Men | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 6428 | n = 5574 | |||
| N or Mean | % or sd | N or Mean | % or sd | |
| Age (years) | 48.7 | 7.4 | 48.6 | 7.6 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 26.5 | 5.3 | 27.3 | 4.1 |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| White | 5954 | 92.6 | 5165 | 92.7 |
| South Asian | 74 | 1.2 | 75 | 1.4 |
| Black | 30 | 0.5 | 31 | 0.6 |
| East Asian | 44 | 0.7 | 20 | 0.4 |
| Others or unknown | 326 | 5.0 | 283 | 5.1 |
| Education level | ||||
| Basic | 1442 | 22.4 | 1005 | 18.0 |
| Further | 2923 | 45.5 | 2601 | 46.7 |
| Higher | 2063 | 32.1 | 1968 | 35.3 |
| Work type | ||||
| Sedentary | 3014 | 46.9 | 2860 | 51.3 |
| Standing | 2011 | 31.3 | 768 | 13.8 |
| Manual work | 481 | 7.5 | 1623 | 29.1 |
| Retired | 230 | 3.6 | 134 | 2.4 |
| Unemployed | 74 | 1.2 | 73 | 1.3 |
| Unknown | 618 | 9.6 | 116 | 2.1 |
| Income | ||||
| < £20,000 | 1064 | 16.6 | 552 | 9.9 |
| £20,000 - £40,000 | 2282 | 35.5 | 1853 | 33.2 |
| > £40,000 | 2871 | 44.7 | 3057 | 54.8 |
| Marital Status | ||||
| Single | 422 | 6.6 | 418 | 7.5 |
| Married/living as married | 3990 | 62.1 | 3605 | 64.7 |
| Widowed/separated/divorced | 567 | 8.8 | 309 | 5.5 |
| Unknown | 1449 | 22.5 | 1242 | 22.3 |
| Smoker Status | ||||
| Never smoked | 3590 | 55.9 | 2871 | 51.5 |
| Ex smoker | 2061 | 32.1 | 1900 | 34.1 |
| Current smoker | 701 | 10.9 | 742 | 13.3 |
| Site | ||||
| Cambridge | 2249 | 35.0 | 2096 | 37.6 |
| Ely | 2438 | 37.9 | 1968 | 35.3 |
| Wisbech | 1741 | 27.1 | 1510 | 27.1 |
| PAEE (kJ/day/kg) | 49.7 | 19.6 | 58.8 | 23.0 |
| MVPA in bouts > 1 min (min/day) | 83.4 | 67.2 | 124.0 | 84.7 |
| MVPA in bouts > 10 min (min/day) | 32.9 | 39.4 | 60.3 | 58.3 |
| Accelerometry (m/s2) | 0.12 | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.05 |
Data are mean (SD) or n (%)