Table 1.

Demographic information of participants in the study sample stratified by cardiovascular condition

		Stroke	Diabetes	Heart disease	Hypertension	No conditions	Total
N	Total	3,217	4,432	7,102	11,318	2,931	16,753
	% in each condition	19	27	42	68	18	100
Mean age	At baseline SD	70.59 (10.15)	65.64 (9.14)	69.09 (10.29)	67.09 (9.93)	66.85 (10.84)	67.61 (10.33)
	Range	53–103	53–100	53–102	53–100	53–103	53–105
Gender	Males %	43	47	48	41	44	44
	Females %	57	53	52	59	56	56
Education	High school and below %	71	73	69	69	65	68
	College and above %	29	27	31	31	35	32
Smoking	Never smoked %	41	40	38	42	41	41
	Ever smoked %	59	60	62	58	59	59
Cognition	Mean cognition score (SD)	12.43 (4.32)	13.43 (4.19)	13.46 (4.23)	13.73 (4.25)	14.55 (4.53)	13.84 (4.35)
	No impairment (≥12) %	37	42	44	44	55	47
	CI (0–11) %	63	58	56	56	45	53
Mortality	Number of deaths	2,251	2,507	4,511	6,142	1,538	9,404
	% of deaths	70	57	64	54	52	56
Multiple conditions	One condition (%)	5	7	21	66	—	33
	Two conditions (%)	20	33	59	88	—	30
	Two+ conditions (%)	58	72	90	98	—	19

SD, standard deviation.