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Table 1 Sex- and country-specific characteristics of study participants

From: Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study

Men

N

Cancer*

CVD*

T2D*

Multimorbidity†

Age years

Follow-up‡

§Alcohol g/day

||Alcohol NC, %

BMI kg/m2

¶Smokers %

¶mrMDS %

¶Physically active %

 Italy

13,158

887

483

438

119

49.9 (7.5)

10.2

25 (0.5–66)

4.0

26.3 (3.3)

31.6

55.5

27.6

 Spain

13,730

1367

923

1238

375

50.3 (7.1)

13.4

33 (1.7–89)

13.9

28.4 (3.4)

40.4

66.8

21.8

 UK

10,862

632

224

80

42

46.0 (13.7)

11.1

14 (0.3–51)

0.1

24.6 (3.4)

13.8

41.5

24.0

 The Netherlands

7073

364

421

123

73

42.7 (11.0)

11.5

20 (0.7–59)

8.7

25.4 (3.5)

38.6

3.4

44.2

 Germany

18,612

1445

510

797

158

51.8 (7.5)

9.2

26 (1.5–69)

4.0

26.8 (3.5)

24.6

8.0

23.1

 Sweden

19,320

2153

1728

1058

548

50.5 (11.2)

12.0

10 (0.4–32)

9.0

25.5 (3.4)

22.7

2.0

19.2

 Denmark

22,459

2435

1546

2058

595

56.4 (4.3)

10.6

29 (2.5–79)

1.6

26.4 (3.5)

37.0

6.0

36.5

Total

105,214

9283

5835

5792

1910

51.0 (9.6)

11.0

23 (0.8–68)

5.6

26.3 (3.6)

29.6

23.2

27.1

Women

N

Cancer*

CVD*

T2D*

Multimorbidity†

Age years

Follow-up‡

§Alcohol g/day

||Alcohol NC, %

BMI

kg/m2

¶Smokers %

¶mrMDS %

¶Physically active %

 Italy

29,712

1963

449

736

197

50.5 (8.0)

10.0

11 (0.2–36)

22.1

25.6 (4.2)

26.4

55.5

9.4

 Spain

22,997

1445

396

1154

194

47.9 (8.2)

13.3

9 (0.2–28)

52.2

27.9 (4.6)

19.5

57.0

4.3

 UK

34,802

2119

252

105

57

43.1 (13.5)

11.1

8 (0.4–30)

0.1

23.5 (3.9)

10.3

52.1

17.9

 The Netherlands

23,138

2126

1113

490

212

51.6 (11.3)

11.6

11 (0.3–35)

17.2

25.1 (4.1)

27.1

7.7

39.5

 Germany

25,785

1443

222

519

67

48.7 (8.9)

9.0

10 (0.4–34)

4.5

25.4 (4.5)

18.7

13.4

19.2

 Sweden

23,849

2266

961

892

282

51.1 (10.8)

11.8

6 (0.2–20)

17.1

24.7 (4.2)

24.0

5.9

17.9

 Denmark

26,281

2832

809

1676

385

56.7 (4.4)

10.7

14 (0.8–42)

2.5

25.4 (4.3)

31.2

14.1

32.7

Total

186,564

14,194

4202

5572

1334

49.7 (10.7)

11.1

10 (0.3–34)

15.3

25.3 (4.4)

21.9

31.1

19.8

  1. Numbers are means (SD), unless otherwise stated
  2. * Frequency of total incident events among first cancer at any site (excl. non-melanoma skin cancer), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and type 2 diabetes (T2D)
  3. † Frequency of participants developing at least two conditions among first cancer at any site, CVD, and T2D
  4. ‡ Median follow-up time in years
  5. § Among participants drinking more than 0.1 g/day of alcohol at baseline, medians (5th–95th percentile)
  6. || NC, non-consumers, i.e. participants drinking less than 0.1 g/day of alcohol at baseline
  7. ¶ Proportion of current smokers, of study participants in the top tertile of the modified relative Mediterranean diet score (mrMDS), and of participants who are physically active