Waste the waist: a pilot randomised controlled trial of a primary care based intervention to support lifestyle change in people with high cardiovascular risk

Table 2 Comparison of participants and non-participants

	Participants ^a	N	Eligible non-participants	N ^b	p-value ^c
Age	65.1 (7.0)	108	65.0 (7.3)	276	0.835
BMI	32.7 (3.1)	108	34.0 (3.4)	400	<0.001
QRISK2	23.1 (10.1)	106	22.8 (9.3)	352	0.820
% Male	75 (69.4%)	108	262 (62.5%)	419	0.216

^aFigures are mean (SD) for continuous data, or N(%) for categorical data. ^bNot all surgeries were able to supply full demographic data for non-participants. ^cAnalyses are independent group t-tests for continuous data or Chi² for categorical data.

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