Table 3.

Basic characteristics of the study cohort.

	All	Females	Males
N (%)	260,405	147,061 (56.47%)	113,344 (43.53%)
Age (mean (sd))	53.15 (17.55)	51.84 (17.71)	54.85 (17.19)
BMI (mean (sd))a	27.29 (5.36)	27.21 (5.83)	27.38 (4.76)
Statin use (N (%))	86,466 (33.2%)	40,422 (27.48%)	46,044 (40.62%)
Hypertension (N (%))	68,005 (26.11%)	33,420 (22.72%)	34,585 (30.51%)
Smoking (N (%))b	1733 (1.07%)	901 (0.96%)	832 (1.22%)
Coronary atherosclerosis	28,598 (11.38%)	9252 (6.87%)	19,346 (17.86%)
Myocardial infarction	14,305 (6.04%)	3958 (2.87%)	10,347 (10.42%)

^aBMI is available only from 178,966 individuals.

^bSmoking information is available only from 98,654 individuals.