Table 2. Population Characteristics.

cohort	population size (N)a	population in main model 3 [N (%)]	baseline period	follow-up	average years of follow-up	age at baseline (mean ± SD)	female (%)	current smokers (%)	married or living with partner (%)	employed (%)	mean area-level income, *1000€ (mean ± SD)
pooled cohort	381,036	323,782 (85.0)			19.5	48.7 ± 13.4	66	24	72	70	20.1 ± 5.8
CEANS-SDPP	7835	7716 (98.5)	1992–1998	2011	15.9	47.1 ± 4.9	61	26	84	91	24.3 ± 4.2
CEANS-SIXTY	4180	3965 (94.9)	1997–1999	2014	15.5	60.0 ± 0.0	52	21	74	68	24.7 ± 6.9
CEANS-SALT	6724	6174 (91.8)	1998–2003	2011	10.4	57.8 ± 10.6	55	21	68	64	25.3 ± 6.6
CEANS-SNACK	3248	2830 (87.1)	2001–2004	2011	7.4	72.9 ± 10.4	62	14	46	23	28.7 ± 2.2
DCH	56,308	52,779 (93.7)	1993–1997	2015	18.2	56.7 ± 4.4	53	36	71	78	20.1 ± 3.4
DNC-1993	19,664	17,017 (86.5)	1993	2013	18.7	56.2 ± 8.4	100	37	68	70	19.2 ± 2.6
DNC-1999	8769	8117 (92.6)	1999	2013	14.4	47.9 ± 4.2	100	29	76	95	19.0 ± 2.4
EPIC_NL-Morgen	20,711	18,292 (88.3)	1993–1997	2013	16.8	42.9 ± 11.3	55	35	65	69	12.2 ± 1.6
EPIC_NL-Prospect	16,194	14,570 (90.0)	1993–1997	2013	16.4	57.7 ± 6.1	100	23	77	51	13.1 ± 1.4
HNR	4809	4733 (98.4)	2000–2003	2015	12	59.7 ± 7.8	50	24	75	40	25.2 ± 8.2
E3N	53,521	38,537 (72.0)	1989–1991	2011	16.8	53.0 ± 6.8	100	13	83	68	11.2 ± 3.0
KORA-S3	4566	2572 (56.3)	1994–1995	2011	15.6	49.4 ± 13.9	51	20	80	55	36.7 ± 4.4
KORA-S4	4257	2281 (53.6)	1999–2001	2014	12.9	49.3 ± 13.8	51	23	79	59	38.0 ± 7.3
VHM&PP	170,250	144,199 (84.7)	1985–2005	2014	23.1	42.1 ± 15.0	56	20	69	70	22.9 ± 1.7

^aPopulation size is the number of subjects for which information was transferred to Utrecht University for construction of the pooled cohort.