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Table 1 General characteristics of Golestan Cohort Study participants according to lifestyles at baseline, (n = 40,692)

From: Comparing the risk of cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality in four lifestyles with a combination of high/low physical activity and healthy/unhealthy diet: a prospective cohort study

Variables

Unhealthy diet inactive

Unhealthy diet active

Healthy diet inactive

Healthy diet active

Participants, n (%)

11,426(28.08)

12,175 (29.92)

8,921(21.92)

8,170 (20.08)

Deaths (All cause), n

2,225

1,555

1,508

968

Age, years

53.43(9.42)

49.38(7.71)

53.16(9.44)

49.68(7.75)

Sex, male n (%)

3,130 (27.39)

7,100 (58.32)

2,613 (29.29)

4,798(58.73)

BMI, kg/m2

26.59 (5.75)

25.59(5.02)

27.57(5.57)

26.37 (5.0)

Energy, kcal/d

2018(542)

2231(567)

2144(538)

2299(560)

Wealth score, high (%)

44.6

41.25

62.77

57.18

Ever tobacco user c (%)

7.36

15.39

7.40

15.09

Ever opium user c (%)

16.16

18.72

13.07

16.98

Formal education, n (%)

80.69

68.01

66.17

56.0

Marital status, Married (%)

83.15

93.78

84.59

93.40

History of Hypertension (%)

20.05

10.20

21.39

11.87

  1. Categories were reported as number or percentage of subjects. Continuous variables were reported by means and standard deviation
  2. Abbreviation: BMI body mass index
  3. All variables were statistically different across the lifestyle categories (P<0.001), ANCOVA for quantitative variables and χ 2 test for qualitative variables