Table 1 |
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| Background characteristics of subjects examined at baseline in 1988–91 at the age of 35 stratified by whether or not they had hypertension or diabetes (as diagnosed by a physician) by the age of 50 | |||
| Study group | Controls | p* | |
| N | 339 | 604 | |
| Male gender (%) | 62 | 61 | 0.726 |
| Married (%) | 82 | 83 | 0.647 |
| In working life (%) | 96 | 93 | 0.207 |
| Physical exercise at least 3 times/week (%) | 25 | 28 | 0.442 |
| Current daily smokers (%) | 33 | 28 | 0.226 |
| Self-reported health status at least quite good (%) | 69 | 80 | 0.004 |
| Alcohol consumption as grams/week (SD) | 95.3 (96.2) | 79.2 (90.0) | 0.047 |
| Height (cm), mean (SD) | 172.8 (9.5) | 172.8 (9.2) | 0.910 |
| BMI (kg/m2), mean (SD) | 26.1 (4.4) | 23.8 (3.2) | <0.001 |
| Diastolic BP (mm Hg), mean (SD) | 86 (10) | 78 (8) | <0.001 |
| Systolic BP (mm Hg), mean (SD) | 135 (13) | 124 (10) | <0.001 |
| Hypertension (%) | 9 | 0 | <0.001 |
| Diabetes (%) | 2 | 0 | 0.016 |
| Serum cholesterol (mmol/l), mean (SD) | 5.5 (1.0) | 5.2 (1.0) | 0.001 |
*Fisher’s test for categorized variables, Mann Whitney U test for continuous variables. BP, blood pressure; BMI, body mass index.
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