Table 1.
Sociodemographic, work, and lifestyle characteristics of the study sample, Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) 2012–2014.
| Character | Women | Men |
|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | |
| Total (7503) | 3998 (53.3) | 3505 (46.7) |
| Age | ||
| Mean (standard deviation) | 51.3 (6.6) | 52.0 (7.1) |
| Schooling | ||
| Up to complete high school | 1423 (35.6) ** | 1482 (42.3) ** |
| Complete undergraduate education | 2575 (64.4) | 2023 (57.7) |
| Occupational category | ||
| Higher | 1562 (39.2) ** | 1422 (40.5) ** |
| Medium | 2074 (51.8) | 1179 (33.6) |
| Manual | 362 (9.0) | 904 (25.8) |
| Work shift | ||
| Daytime | 3622 (90.6) | 3153 (90.0) |
| Nighttime | 376 (9.4) | 352 (10.0) |
| Weekly workload | ||
| Up to 40 hours a week | 1862 (46.6) ** | 1319 (37.6) ** |
| More than 40 hours a week | 2136 (53.4) | 2186 (62.4) |
| Smoking habit | ||
| Never smoked | 2680 (67.0) ** | 2003 (57.2) ** |
| Ex-smoker | 920 (23.0) | 1106 (31.5) |
| Smoker | 398 (10.0) | 396 (11.3) |
| Body mass index | ||
| Thinness/normal | 1499 (37.5) ** | 1101 (31.4) ** |
| Overweight | 1461 (36.5) | 1636 (46.7) |
| Obese | 1038 (26.0) | 768 (21.9) |
** p < 0.01 in the Chi-squared test for gender difference.