Table 1. Selected baseline characteristics of study participants by ginseng consumption status, Shanghai Women’s Health Study, 1996–2016.

Characteristics	Regular ginseng use
	No	Yesb,c	P-value
Number of cohort members	41,913	14,270
Age, yearsa	50.4 (8.3)	54.1 (9.1)	<0.001
Waist-to-hip ratioa	0.808 (0.05)	0.811 (0.05)	<0.001
Body mass index, kg/m2 a	24.1 (3.2)	24.0 (3.1)	0.456
Education, %			<0.001
Never have formal education	7.7	11.8
Elementary school or less	8.2	13.0
Middle school	42.2	31.4
High school graduate	29.3	27.6
Some college and higher	12.6	16.1
Household income, %			<0.001
Low	15.4	14.2
Middle	75.3	73.9
High	9.3	11.9
Currently married, %	90.8	87.4	<0.001
Ever diagnosed with hypertension, %	18.8	24.0	<0.001
Ever diagnosed with diabetes, %	2.9	5.0	<0.001
Ever consumed vitamin supplements, %	5.3	10.6	<0.001
Ever consumed calcium supplements, %	14.8	24.1	<0.001
LTPA daily activity, %	22.7	36.1	<0.001

LTPA, leisure-time physical activity; SD, standard deviation.

^aMean (SD).

^bMedian (interquartile range [IQR]) for duration of ginseng consumption: 4 (IQR, 2–9 years).

^cMedian (IQR) for amount of ginseng consumption: 100 (IQR, 50–150 grams).