Financial stress in late adulthood and diverse risks of incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in women and men

Table 2 Clinical and anthropometric baseline characteristics in men

Group	Cohabiting with cash margin	Single with cash margin	Cohabiting without cash margin	Single without cash margin
n (died during follow-up)	1496 (158)	325 (56)	68 (8)	50 (19)
Body mass index	27 (24–29)	27 (24–30)	28 (25–31)	27 (24–30)
Systolic blood pressure	142 (129–155)	138 (125–155)	138 (127–161)	148 (135–166)
Low-density lipoprotein	3.8 (3.3–4.5)	3.7 (3.0–4.3)	3.5 (3.1–4.3)	3.8 (3.2–4.6)
High-density lipoprotein	1.3 (1.09–1.51)	1.3 (1.05–1.52)	1.2 (1.0–1.4)	1.2 (1.0–1.4)
Cardiovascular disease at baseline	10	12	15	22
Diabetes at baseline	9	10	10	16
Employed	76	64	46	46
Education
Low/High school/university	54/16/30	61/16/23	75/11/13	84/4/12
Smoking Never/former/current	33/49/18	35/40/25	35/31/34	20/28/52
High alcohol consumption	20	19	18	26
Leisure physical activity >1/week	35	37	30	16
Daily intake of fruit	54	49	57	32
Daily intake of vegetables	61	54	51	32

The data are medians and interquartile range (IQR) or estimated frequencies (%).

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