Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of the health outcomes and early-life exposures
| Outcomes (age) | N = 7951 |
| % | |
| Multimorbidity (46–48)* | 33.8 (32.6, 35.0) |
| Chronic fatigue syndrome (46–48) | 1.5 (1.2, 1.7) |
| Arthritis (46–48) | 7.7 (7.1, 8.3) |
| Stroke (46–48) | 0.5 (0.4, 0.7) |
| Heart problems (46–48) | 3.0 (2.6, 3.4) |
| Eyes problems (46–48) | 4.9 (4.5, 5.4) |
| Hearing problems (46–48) | 5.8 (5.2, 6.3) |
| Recurrent back problems (46–48) | 20.9 (20.0, 21.8) |
| Drinking problems (46–48) | 26.3 (25.3, 27.4) |
| Hypertension (46–48) | 15.7 (14.8, 16.6) |
| Diabetes (46–48) | 4.7 (4.1, 5.2) |
| Mental health morbidity (46–48) | 19.1 (18.3, 20.0) |
| Asthma/bronchitis (46–48) | 11.6 (10.9, 12.3) |
| Convulsion, fit, epileptic seizure (46–48) | 1.1 (0.8, 1.3) |
| Cancer or leukaemia (46–48) | 1.6 (1.4, 1.8) |
| Mean (standard error) | |
| Mean number of conditions (46–48) | 1.24 (0.02) |
| Systolic blood pressure, mmHg (46–48) | 125.39 (0.19) |
| Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg (46–48) | 77.73 (0.13) |
| HbA1C, % (46–48) | 5.59 (0.01) |
| Malaise Inventory (46–48) | 1.76 (2.12) |
| AUDIT-PC (46–48) | 3.88 (2.58) |
| Exposures (age) | Mean (standard error) |
| Birthweight (0) | 3.31 (0.01) |
| Cognitive ability (10) | 0.16 (0.01) |
| Body mass index (10) | 16.9 (0.03) |
| Internalising problems (16) | 0.93 (0.02) |
| Externalising problems (16) | 0.68 (0.02) |
| % | |
| Father’s social class at birth (0) | |
| I – professional | 6.1 |
| II – managerial and technical | 13.8 |
| III – skilled non-manual/manual | 60.8 |
| IV – partly-skilled | 13.9 |
| V – unskilled | 5.5 |
*Note. The outcome data were collected over the 2 years when participants were 46–48 year old
AUDIT-PC = alcohol use disorders identification test- primary care