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Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the baseline SAHR sample

From: Prevalence, correlates, and mortality impacts of ventricular arrhythmia among older men and women: a population-based cohort study in Moscow

Variable

Mean or prevalence

Males

Females

P for male-female  difference

n = 804

n = 928

Socio-demographic

Age

67.4 (8.4)a

69.5 (8.8)

 < 0.001

Education (%)

   

 High

40.2

30.3

 < 0.001

 Middle

43.8

46.7

0.222

 Low

16.0

22.9

 < 0.001

Classic CVD factors

   

Smoking (%)

   

 Never

32.6

82.4

 < 0.001

 Former

40.6

10.4

 < 0.001

 Current

26.8

7.1

 < 0.001

Obesity (BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m2) (%)

28.6

46.6

 < 0.001

Grade II hypertension (BP ≥ 160/100 mmHg)

30.5

24.3

 < 0.01

Total cholesterol ≥ 6.2 mmol/L

28.7

51.1

 < 0.001

Triglycerides (TG ≥ 2.3 mmol/L)

9.1

7.7

0.313

Inflammation

   

Interleukin-6 (IL-6 ≥ 2.0 pg/L for females, ≥ 2.4 pg/L for males) (%)

20.2

19.8

0.821

C-reactive protein (CRP ≥ 3.0 mg/L) (%)

31.3

35.0

0.099

Reported CVD events

   

Myocardial infarction (%)

15.1

5.8

 < 0.001

Stroke (%)

9.5

5.9

 < 0.01

  1. Adjusted for the difference in the educational composition of the general Moscow population
  2. aStandard deviation is given in parentheses