Background
Methods
Study design and population
Ascertainment of diseases
Statistical analyses
Results
All participants (n = 6094) | Men (n = 2585, 42.4%) | Women (n = 3509, 57.6%) | p-value for sex differences1 | |
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Age (years), median (IQR) | 60.8 (57.1–66.7) | 60.4 (56.7–65.9) | 61.1 (57.3–67.5) | < 0.001 |
Years of follow-up, median (IQR) | 9.2 (7.1–13.4) | 9.3 (7.2–12.7) | 9.1 (7.0–13.8) | 0.58 |
Marital status | < 0.001 | |||
Living with partner | 4619 (80.3%) | 2244 (90.4%) | 2375 (72.8%) | |
Living without partner | 1127 (19.6%) | 239 (9.6%) | 888 (27%) | |
Education | < 0.001 | |||
Primary | 636 (10.4%) | 210 (8%) | 426 (14%) | |
Lower secondary | 2462 (40.5%) | 703 (30%) | 1759 (55%) | |
Further secondary | 1189 (19.5%) | 724 (38%) | 465 (24%) | |
Higher | 1782 (29.3%) | 938 (23%) | 844 (7%) | |
Smoking status | < 0.001 | |||
Never | 1945 (32.2%) | 461 (17.8%) | 1484 (42.9%) | |
Former | 2690 (44.5%) | 1396 (53.2%) | 1294 (37.4%) | |
Current | 1410 (23.0%) | 719 (27.9%) | 682 (19.7%) | |
Blood pressure (mm Hg), median (IQR) | ||||
Systolic | 135 (122–148) | 136 (124–149) | 134 (120–148) | < 0.001 |
Diastolic | 79 (72–86) | 80 (73–87) | 78 (71–86) | < 0.001 |
Ancestry | 0.8 | |||
European | 5378 (97.9%) | 2280 (98.0%) | 3098 (97.9%) | |
East-Asian | 63 (1.1%) | 28 (1.2%) | 35 (1.1%) | |
African | 37 (0.7%) | 13 (0.6%) | 24 (0.8%) | |
Admixed | 13 (0.2%) | 5 (0.2%) | 8 (0.3%) | |
Age at diagnosis (years), median (IQR)2 | ||||
First disease | 71.9 (64.5–79.0) | 71.0 (64.0–77.6) | 72.9 (64.9–80.3) | < 0.001 |
Second disease | 78.1 (71.8–84.0) | 77.0 (71.1–82.7) | 79.0 (72.6–84.9) | < 0.001 |