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Table 1 Key characteristics of the study population at baseline

From: The joint associations of smoking and obesity with subsequent short and long sickness absence: a five year follow-up study with register-linkage

Variables

Women (n = 5388)

Men (n = 1459)

Age in years (SD)

50.2 (6.6)

49.3 (6.6)

Body Mass Index, BMI (SD)

25.5 (4.4)

26.5 (3.9)

Smoking

22%

26%

Socio-economic position

 Professionals and managers %

28%

44%

 Semiprofessionals %

19%

20%

 Routine non-manual %

42%

10%

 Manual workers %

12%

27%

Regular day-time work

79%

70%

Poor self-rated health

25%

28%

METa hours/week (SD)

28 (22)

33 (29)

Alcohol units/week (SD)

4.0 (5.1)

9.2 (10)

  1. ametabolic equivalent value