Table 1.

Baseline characteristics (2007–2009) according to sex.

	Men (n = 2430)		Women (n = 851)
	% or mean	SD	% or mean	SD	P for difference
Age, year	65.5	5.70	65.4	5.77	0.70
Non-white, %	5.32		11.5		<0.001
Low social grade, %	3.21		22.3		<0.001
CES-Da	4	1–8	6	2–11	<0.001
Current smokers, %	4.95		3.65		0.12
Alcohol drinkers (in the past week), %	88.3		71.8		<0.001
BMI, (kg/m2)	26.2	3.67	26.4	4.98	0.09
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg	125.6	14.9	121.9	16.6	<0.001
Hypertension medication use, %	30.6		30.0		0.72
Arterial pressure, mmHg	90.8	10.4	87.8	11.0	<0.001
Total cholesterol, mmol/l	5.12	1.00	5.58	1.07	<0.001
Diabetes, %	2.22		2.70		0.43
Slope in cortisol, nmol/lb	-0.12	0.02	-0.12	0.02	0.47
Bedtime Cortisol, nmol/lb	0.61	0.83	0.69	0.84	0.02
Pulse wave velocity, m/sc	8.66	2.18	8.44	2.22	0.01

^aShows median and interquartile range and testing the significance performed by Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

^blog-transformed.

^cearliest measure at either 2007–2009 or 2012–2013.