Table 1.

Characteristics of the UK Biobank participants with plasma NMR biomarkers in the first data release from Nightingale Health

	Subset with NMR biomarkers, baseline	Full cohort, baseline
Number of participants	118,461	502,543
Age at blood sampling (median, [range])	58 [39–71]	58 [37–73]
Females (%)	54	54
Body mass index (kg/m2), mean	27.4	27.4
Smoking prevalence (regular, occasional; %)	7.9, 2.7	7.8, 2.7
Fasting time, mean (h)	3.8	3.8
Self-reported cholesterol-lowering medication use (%)	18	17