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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the study population from the Swedish Twin Registry and the Health and Retirement Study

From: Age-dependent effects of body mass index across the adult life span on the risk of dementia: a cohort study with a genetic approach

 

The Swedish Twin Registry

The Health and Retirement Study

All

No dementia

Dementia

All

No dementia

Dementia

N

22,156

18,424

3732

25,698

20,070

5628

Female sex, N (%)

12,351 (55.75)

10,033 (54.46)

2318 (62.11)

14,273 (55.54)

10,875 (54.19)

3398 (60.38)

Low education, N (%)

9538 (43.05)

7319 (39.73)

2219 (59.46)

15,713 (61.14)

11,192 (55.76)

4521 (80.33)

Smokers, N (%)

12,076 (54.50)

10,381 (56.34)

1695 (45.42)

15,062 (58.61)

12,020 (59.89)

3042 (54.05)

Age at baseline, mean (SD)

66.75 (8.59)

66.40 (8.07)

68.44 (10.67)

62.92 (10.83)

60.69 (9.81)

70.90 (10.54)

Age at last follow-up, mean (SD)

79.19 (8.96)

77.83 (8.87)

85.91 (5.84)

75.07 (9.30)

73.82 (8.94)

79.55 (9.16)

Age at death, mean (SD)

83.88 (7.58)

82.76 (8.01)

86.44 (5.74)

81.43 (9.27)

79.15 (9.08)

85.23 (8.28)

BMI at baseline, mean (SD)

25.48 (3.77)

25.57 (3.83)

25.03 (3.48)

27.18 (5.18)

27.34 (5.22)

26.60 (5.01)

  1. Descriptive statistics for all individuals, individuals without dementia, and individuals with dementia in the Swedish Twin Registry and the Health and Retirement Study. Statistics are presented as number (%) of individuals for categorical variables and mean level (SD) for continuous variables
  2. N number, SD standard deviation, BMI body mass index