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Table 1 Baseline characteristics and incident cancer cases during follow-up included men and women

From: Life’s essential 8 and specific cancer risk and mortality in men and women: a population-based cohort analysis of 332,417 United Kingdom participants

Characteristic

Men (n = 158,334)

Women (n = 174,083)

P-value

Baseline characteristics N (%)

   

Age (years)

58 (50, 63)

57 (49, 63)

< 0.001

Ethnicity

  

0.194

White

150,447 (95.0%)

165,240 (94.9%)

 

Others

7887 (5.0%)

8,843 (5.1%)

 

Education levels

  

< 0.001

1

24,405 (15.4%)

26,408 (15.2%)

 

2

38,303 (24.2%)

50,241 (28.9%)

 

3

16,963 (10.7%)

21,472 (12.3%)

 

4

7,013 (4.4%)

9,939 (5.7%)

 

5

70,396 (44.5%)

64,663 (37.1%)

 

Unknown

1,254 (0.8%)

1,360 (0.8%)

 

Annual household income before tax, £

  

< 0.001

< 18,000

27,118 (17.1%)

33,904 (19.5%)

 

18,000–30,999

34,061 (21.5%)

38,120 (21.9%)

 

31 000–51,999

39,389 (24.9%)

38,442 (22.1%)

 

52,000-100,000

33,870 (21.4%)

29,126 (16.7%)

 

> 100,000

9,422 (6.0%)

7,684 (4.4%)

 

Unknown /Not prefer to answer

14,474 (9.1%)

26,807 (15.4%)

 

Townsend deprivation index

-2.2 (-3.7,0.4)

-2.2 (-3.7,0.3)

0.417

Alcohol status

  

< 0.001

Never

3,935 (2.5%)

9,403 (5.4%)

 

Previous

5,303 (3.3%)

5,997 (3.4%)

 

Current

148,997 (94.1%)

158,585 (91.1%)

 

Prefer not to answer

99 (0.1%)

98 (0.1%)

 

Menopause

NA

  

Yes

 

103,382 (59.4%)

 

No

 

44,308 (25.5%)

 

Unknown

 

26,393 (15.2%)

 

CVD

16,273 (10.3%)

8,625 (5.0%)

< 0.001

AHA Life’s Essential 8 score

   

Total CVH score

64.4 (55.6,72.5)

70 (61.2, 78.1)

< 0.001

Diet score

50 (25, 80)

50 (25, 80)

< 0.001

Blood pressure score

25 (5, 50)

50 (25, 75)

< 0.001

Blood glucose score

100 (100, 100)

100 (100, 100)

< 0.001

Sleep health score

100 (70, 100)

100 (70, 100)

< 0.001

Body mass index score

70 (30, 70)

70 (70, 100)

< 0.001

Physical activity score

100 (100, 100)

100 (90, 100)

< 0.001

Tobacco/nicotine exposure score

50 (25, 100)

75 (25, 100)

< 0.001

Blood lipid score

40 (20, 60)

40 (20, 60)

< 0.001

Cancer types and subtypes [Incident cases, (%)]

   

Overall cancer

27,706 (17.5%)

23,121 (13.3%)

< 0.001

Anus

49 (0.0%)

77 (0.0%)

0.049

Bladder

513 (0.3%)

170 (0.1%)

< 0.001

Brain

297 (0.2%)

216 (0.1%)

< 0.001

Breast

44 (0.0%)

6,114 (3.5%)

< 0.001

Colorectal

2,212 (1.4%)

1,644 (0.9%)

< 0.001

Esophageal

469 (0.3%)

175 (0.1%)

< 0.001

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC)

351 (0.2%)

66 (0.0%)

< 0.001

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC)

74 (0.0%)

93 (0.1%)

0.39

Kidney

614 (0.4%)

313 (0.2%)

< 0.001

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC)

529 (0.3%)

272 (0.2%)

< 0.001

Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC)

40 (0.0%)

19 (0.0%)

0.002

Laryngeal

115 (0.1%)

5 (0.0%)

< 0.001

Leukemia

495 (0.3%)

315 (0.2%)

< 0.001

Liver

289 (0.2%)

130 (0.1%)

< 0.001

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)

176 (0.1%)

27 (0.0%)

< 0.001

Cholangiocarcinoma (CAC)

92 (0.1%)

95 (0.1%)

0.668

Lung

1,350 (0.9%)

1,205 (0.7%)

< 0.001

Small cell carcinoma (SCLC)

163 (0.1%)

176 (0.1%)

0.868

Non-small cell carcinoma (NSCLC)

982 (0.6%)

894 (0.5%)

0.325

Lymphoma

826 (0.5%)

677 (0.4%)

< 0.001

Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL)

52 (0.0%)

42 (0.0%)

0.136

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL)

743 (0.5%)

602 (0.3%)

< 0.001

Mesothelioma

208 (0.1%)

52 (0.0%)

< 0.001

Multiple Myeloma

352 (0.2%)

245 (0.1%)

< 0.001

Oral

435 (0.3%)

223 (0.1%)

< 0.001

Ovarian

NA

637 (0.4%)

 

Pancreatic

462 (0.3%)

381 (0.2%)

< 0.001

Prostate

7,725 (4.9%)

NA

 

Melanoma skin

10,018 (6.3%)

8,280 (4.8%)

< 0.001

Small intestine

87 (0.1%)

78 (0.0%)

0.19

Soft tissue

115 (0.1%)

168 (0.1%)

0.018

Stomach

319 (0.2%)

143 (0.1%)

< 0.001

Thyroid

81 (0.1%)

211 (0.1%)

< 0.001

Uterine

NA

1,003 (0.6%)

 
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