Table 4. Baseline characteristics of participants with or without laboratory assessments/important information from a total of 2,304 participants without a history of cardiovascular disease.

Characteristics	Laboratory assessments/important information		P-value
	No (n = 1,047)	Yes (n = 1,257)
Data are presented as means ± SD or n (%).
Age, yrs	73.66 ± 9.33	69.16 ± 8.10	< 0.001
Male	508 (48.52%)	550 (43.76%)	0.022
Prevalence of hypertension	639 (61.03%)	762 (60.62%)	0.841
Antihypertensive treatment in hypertensive patients	277 (43.35%)	345 (45.28%)	0.594
Prevalence of diabetes mellitus	105 (10.03%)	218 (17.34%)	< 0.001
Ever smoking	321 (30.66%)	386 (30.71%)	0.980
Ever drinking	253 (24.17%)	386 (30.71%)	< 0.001
Physical activity ≥ 1 h/day	446 (42.60%)	572 (45.55%)	0.162