Table 1 Baseline demographic, lifestyle and clinical characteristics of the study participants during follow-up (n = 2,067). Data are weighted percentages for categorical variables and weighted means (standard errors) for normally distributed continuous variables.
| Â | Cases (N = 498) | Non-cases (N = 1569) | p-value* |
|---|---|---|---|
Demographic | Â | Â | Â |
Sex = male [%] | 61.7 | 53.2 | <0.001 |
Age [yrs] | 56.0 (0.4) | 51.6 (0.3) | <0.001 |
Clinical | Â | Â | Â |
Body Mass Index [kg/m2] | 30.0 (0.2) | 26.7 (0.1) | <0.001 |
Systolic Blood Pressure [mmHg] | 142.2 (0.8) | 132.7 (0.5) | <0.001 |
Diastolic Blood Pressure [mmHg] | 85.3 (0.5) | 81.5 (0.3) | <0.001 |
History of actual hypertension [%] | 66.5 | 39.8 | <0.001 |
History of myocardial infarction [%] | 5.0 | 1.9 | 0.003 |
Total cholesterol [mg/dl] | 247.4 (2.0) | 235.9 (1.1) | <0.001 |
HDL cholesterol [mg/dl] | 47.9 (0.6) | 57.6 (0.4) | <0.001 |
Ratio TC/HDL-C | 5.6 (0.1) | 4.5 (0.0) | <0.001 |
Lifestyle | Â | Â | Â |
Smoking status [%] | Â | Â | 0.002 |
Current smoker | 26.9 | 24.2 | Â |
Former smoker | 33.3 | 27.2 | Â |
Never smoker | 39.8 | 48.6 | Â |
Frequency of exercise [%] | Â | Â | <0.001 |
Inactive | 69.1 | 58.3 | Â |
Active | 30.9 | 41.7 | Â |
Alcohol consumption†[%] |  |  | 0.112 |
0 g/d | 32.1 | 28.5 | Â |
0–39.9/0–19.9 g/d | 39.4 | 44.6 |  |
≥ 40/20 g/d | 28.5 | 26.9 |  |
Survey ‡ |  |  | <0.001 |
S1 [%] | 36.5 | 28.9 | Â |
S2 [%] | 39.4 | 36.1 | Â |
S3 [%] | 24.1 | 35.0 | Â |