Table 1.

Population characteristics based on the observations included in Model 3.

Subcohorta	Population size ($N$)b	Persons in main model, Model 3 [$n$ (%)]c	Baseline period	Follow-up	Average years of follow-up	Age at baseline ($\text{mean}\pm \text{SD}$)	Female (%)	Current smokers (%)	Overweight or obese [$\text{BMI}\ge {25\hspace{0.17em}\text{kg}/\mathrm{m}}^2$ (%)]	Married or living with partner (%)	Employed (%)
Pooled cohort	381,036	323,782 (85.0)	—	—	19.5	$48.7\pm 13.4$	66	24	43	72	70
CEANS-SDPP	7,835	7,716 (98.5)	1992–1998	2011	15.9	$47.1\pm 4.9$	61	26	52	84	91
CEANS-SIXTY	4,180	3,965 (94.9)	1997–1999	2014	15.5	$60.0\pm 0.0$	52	21	64	74	68
CEANS-SALT	6,724	6,174 (91.8)	1998–2003	2011	10.4	$57.8\pm 10.6$	55	21	40	68	64
CEANS-SNACK	3,248	2,830 (87.1)	2001–2004	2011	7.4	$72.9\pm 10.4$	62	14	53	46	23
DCH	56,308	52,779 (93.7)	1993–1997	2015	18.2	$56.7\pm 4.4$	53	36	56	71	78
DNC-1993	19,664	17,017 (86.5)	1993	2013	18.7	$56.2\pm 8.4$	100	37	28	68	70
DNC-1999	8,769	8,117 (92.6)	1999	2013	14.4	$47.9\pm 4.2$	100	29	30	76	95
EPIC-NL-MORGEN	20,711	18,292 (88.3)	1993–1997	2013	16.8	$42.9\pm 11.3$	55	35	49	65	69
EPIC-NL Prospect	16,194	14,570 (90.0)	1993–1997	2013	16.4	$57.7\pm 6.1$	100	23	55	77	51
HNR	4,809	4,733 (98.4)	2000–2003	2015	12.0	$59.7\pm 7.8$	50	24	74	75	40
E3N	53,521	38,537 (72.0)	1989–1991	2011	16.8	$53.0\pm 6.8$	100	13	21	83	68
KORA-S3	4,566	2,572 (56.3)	1994–1995	2011	15.6	$49.4\pm 13.9$	51	20	67	80	55
KORA-S4	4,257	2,281 (53.6)	1999–2001	2014	12.9	$49.3\pm 13.8$	51	23	69	79	59
VHM&PP	170,250	144,199 (84.7)	1985–2005	2014	23.1	$42.1\pm 15.0$	56	20	42	69	70

Note: —, not applicable; BMI, body mass index; CEANS, Cardiovascular Effects of Air Pollution and Noise in Stockholm; DCH, Diet, Cancer and Health cohort; DNC, Danish Nurse Cohort (1993 and 1999); EPIC-NL, European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition–Netherlands cohort; E3N, Etude Epidémiologique auprès de femmes de la Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale; HNR, Heinz Nixdorf Recall study; KORA, the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg [1994–1995 (S3) and 1999–2001 (S4)], MORGEN, Monitoring Project on Risk Factors and Chronic Diseases in the Netherlands; SALT, Stockholm Screening Across the Lifespan Twin study; SD, standard deviation; SDPP, Stockholm Diabetes Prevention Program; SIXTY, Stockholm Cohort of 60-Year-Olds; SNACK, Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen; VHM&PP, Vorarlberg Health Monitoring and Prevention Program.

^aThe CEANS cohort (including SDPP, SIXTY, SALT, SNACK) is in Sweden; the DCH cohort is in Denmark; the DNC (consisting of two surveys conducted in 1993 and 1999) is in Denmark; the EPIC-NL cohort is in the Netherlands (including MORGEN and Prospect); the HNR study is in Germany; the E3N is in France; the KORA is in Germany (consisting of two surveys S3 and S4); the VHM&PP is in Austria.

^bPopulation size is the number of subjects for which information was transferred to Utrecht University for construction of the pooled cohort.

^cThe missing data for individual cohorts are indicated in Table S1–S8.