Lifestyle Practices and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in the Elderly: The Leisure World Cohort Study

Table 1

Characteristics of the cohort by sex.

	Women (𝑛=8444)		Men (𝑛=4852)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age at baseline (years)	73	7.4	74	7.2
Age at last followup (years)	88	7.1	86	6.9
Followup years	15	7.4	12	7.1
Active activities (hrs/day)	0.91	1.1	1.0	1.3
Other activities (hrs/day)	4.4	2.6	3.6	2.7
Alcohol (drinks/day)	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.5
Caffeine (mg/day)	169	166	177	172
Body mass index (kg/m^2)	23	3.5	24	2.9
	No.	%	No.	%
Medical history
High blood pressure	3433	41	1764	36
Angina	806	9.6	714	15
Heart attack	560	6.6	798	16
Stroke	308	3.7	344	7.1
Cancer	1078	13	452	9.3
Diabetes	421	5.0	405	8.3
Rheumatoid arthritis	564	6.7	218	4.5
Smoke
Never	4627	55	1618	33
Past	2750	32	2812	58
Current	1067	13	422	9
Deceased	7367	87	4562	94
Deceased from cardiovascular disease	4525	54	2656	55