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Table 1 Characteristics of participants according to psychosocial factors at baseline

From: Impact of psychosocial factors on cardiovascular morbimortality: a prospective cohort study

 

Education level

 

Social support in the household

Diagnosis of depression

 

High education*

Primary education

Less than primary education

 

Live with other

Live alone

 

None

Yes

 
 

(N = 1646)

(N = 5433)

(N = 184)

 

(N = 6535)

(N = 728)

 

(N = 5954)

(N = 1309)

 
 

(%)

(%)

(%)

p-value

(%)

(%)

p-value

(%)

(%)

p-value

Age (mean; SD)

64.6 (6.2)

67.7 (6.1)

69.4 (5.0)

<0.001

66.6 (6.1)

70.1 (6.2)

<0.001

67.0 (6.3)

66.8 (6.0)

0.217

Sex (Women)

37.4

62.6

89.7

<0.001

54.8

82.1

<0.001

52.7

79.8

0.001

Type of Mediterranean diet

          

  Low fat diet

29.0

34.0

26.1

0.453

32.4

34.9

0.130

32.2

34.4

0.096

  With extra-Virgin Olive oil

33.8

34.2

42.4

 

34.7

31.0

 

34.2

35.1

 

  With mixed nuts

37.2

31.8

31.0

 

32.9

34.1

 

33.6

30.6

 

High alcohol consumption

30.0

18.8

8.2

<0.001

21.5

17.1

0.007

22.5

14.6

<0.001

Smoking status

          

  Never smoked

41.4

66.5

84.8

<0.001

59.9

73.9

<0.001

58.4

74.5

<0.001

  Former smoker

36.9

21.5

9.2

 

25.5

17.0

 

27.1

13.5

 

  Current-smoker

21.7

12.0

6.8

 

14.6

9.1

 

14.5

12.0

 

Body-mass index (Kg/m2)

29.3 (3.7)

30.1 (3.8)

30.7 (4.1)

<0.001

30.0 (3.8)

30.0 (4.2)

0.743

29.9 (3.8)

30.5 (4.0)

<0.001

Cardiovascular risk factors§

          

  Hypertension

90.5

91.2

94.6

0.159

91.0

92.6

0.151

91.1

91.4

0.756

  Type 2 diabetes

67.7

73.2

81.0

<0.001

72.1

72.1

0.998

72.1

72.3

0.840

  Dyslipidemia

77.5

77.8

79.9

0.764

77.4

81.2

0.019

77.2

80.5

0.008

  Family history of premature CHD

23.7

21.9

20.1

0.231

22.4

21.0

0.404

21.6

25.1

0.007

Living alone

8.3

10.5

12.5

0.022

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9.0

14.7

<0.001

Diagnostic of depression

15.2

18.6

27.7

<0.001

17.1

26.5

<0.001

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Educational level

          

 High education*

---

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23.1

18.8

0.022

23.4

19.1

<0.001

  Primary education

---

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74.4

78.0

 

74.3

77.0

 

  Less than primary education

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2.5

3.2

 

2.2

3.9

 
  1. *High education means university studies or secondary school.
  2. Standard deviation.
  3. Alcohol consumption presented 68 missing values in its denominator. Standard deviation.
  4. §Hypertension (Medical diagnosis of hypertension or taking antihypertensive treatment), Type 2 diabetes (Medical diagnosis of diabetes or taking antidiabetic treatment) and Dyslipidemia (Medical diagnosis of dyslipidemia or taking lowering-lipid therapy).
  5. CHD denotes coronary heart disease.