Table 2.

Standardised differences for the categorical variables of interest (values above 0.1 are highlighted in bold [23]).

	% participants tested	% participants tested positive	% participants hospitalised U07.X	% participants cause of death (primary and secondary) with U07.X
Obesity	0.130	0.200	0.415	0.488
Gender	0.047	0.071	0.301	0.451
Age	0.170	0.336	0.484	1.010
Ethnicity	0.039	0.110	0.156	0.181
Townsend-10	0.074	0.161	0.310	0.360
Townsend-5	0.070	0.156	0.286	0.348
Region	0.397	0.477	0.432	0.242
Classification	0.151	0.323	0.567	0.929