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. 2022 Feb 4;115(4):138–144. doi: 10.1177/01410768211073923

Table 1.

Participant characteristics.

All (N = 401,910) Household size
1 person (N = 72,087) 2 persons (189,109) 3 or more (140,714)
Age at test (years) 68.2 (8.07) 68.6 (7.95) 70.58 (7.02) 62.7 (7.20)
Body mass index (kg/m2) 27.4 (4.74) 27.5 (5.12) 27.41 (4.60) 27.2 (4.71)
Townsend score −1.41 (3.00) −0.12 (3.36) −1.79 (2.78) −1.57 (2.90)
Sex
 Male 180,150 (44.8) 29,601 (41.1) 83,802 (44.3) 66,747 (47.4)
 Female 221,760 (55.2) 42,486 (58.9) 105,307 (55.7) 73, 967 (52.6)
Ethnicity
 White European 387,771 (96.5) 69,739 (96.7) 186,006 (98.4) 132,026 (93.8)
 South Asian 6959 (1.7) 596 (0.8) 1404 (0.7) 4959 (3.5)
 Black and African Caribbean 7180 (1.8) 1752 (2.4) 1699 (0.9) 3729 (2.7)
Smoking status
 Never 223,207 (55.5) 37,595 (52.2) 101,171 (53.5) 84,441 (60.0)
 Previous 139,625 (34.7) 24,207 (33.6) 72,544 (38.4) 42,874 (30.5)
 Current 39,078 (9.7) 10,285 (14.3) 15,594 (8.1) 13,399 (9.5)
Morbidities
 Yes 299,728 (74.6) 56,300 (78.1) 147,734 (78.1) 95,694 (68.0)
 No 102,182 (25.4) 15,787 (21.9) 41,375 (21.9) 45,020 (32.0)
Past or current cancer
 Yes 31,381 (7.8) 6323 (8.8) 17,266 (9.1) 7792 (5.5)
 No 370,529 (92.2) 65,764 (91.2) 171,843 (90.9) 132,922 (94.5)
Health worker
 Yes 4358 (1.1) 573 (0.8) 1461 (0.8) 2324 (1.7)
 No 397,552 (98.9) 71,514 (99.2) 187,648 (99.2) 138,390 (98.4)
COVID-19 status
 None 387,034 (96.3) 69,724 (96.7) 183,666 (97.1) 133,644 (95.0)
 Non-severe 11,264 (2.8) 1,515 (2.1) 3,841 (2.0) 5,908 (4.2)
 Severe 3612 (0.9) 848 (1.2) 1692 (0.9) 1162 (0.8)

Values reported are N (%) unless otherwise stated.