Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study participants according to sex and age groups
Variables | Total (n = 10,368) | Men (n = 4395) | Women (n = 5973) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age groups | 20–39 (n = 1999) | 40–59 (n = 1468) |  ≥ 60 (n = 928) | 20–39 (n = 2963) | 40–59 (n = 2139) |  ≥ 60 (n = 871) | |
Groups | |||||||
 Intervention | 3931 (37.9) | 721 (36.1) | 541 (36.9) | 388 (41.8) | 1135 (38.3) | 796 (37.2) | 350 (40.2) |
 Control | 6437 (62.1) | 1278 (63.9) | 927 (63.1) | 540 (58.2) | 1828 (61.7) | 1343 (62.8) | 521 (59.8) |
Education level | |||||||
 Illiterate or primary | 5264 (50.8) | 514(25.7) | 664(45.3) | 749(80.7) | 896(30.2) | 1601(75.1) | 840(96.7) |
 Secondary | 3829 (37.0) | 1088(54.5) | 518(35.4) | 112(12.1) | 1658(56.0) | 430(20.2) | 23(2.6) |
 Higher | 1260 (12.2) | 395(19.8) | 283(19.3) | 67(7.2) | 708(13.8) | 101(4.7) | 6(0.7) |
Marital status | |||||||
 Married | 8271 (79.8) | 1236(61.8) | 1447(98.6) | 905(97.5) | 2260(76.3) | 1888(88.3) | 535(61.4) |
 Single | 1466 (14.1) | 754(37.7) | 12(0.8) | 6(0.6) | 658(22.2) | 32(1.5) | 4(0.5) |
 Divorced or widowed | 631(6.1) | 9(0.5) | 9(0.6) | 17(1.8) | 45(1.5) | 219(10.2) | 332(38.1) |
Occupation status | |||||||
 Unemployed | 6622 (63.9) | 357(17.9) | 250(17.0) | 646(69.7) | 2542(85.8) | 1960(91.7) | 867(99.5) |
 Employed | 3738 (36.1) | 1640(82.1) | 1215(82.9) | 281(30.3) | 420(14.2) | 178(8.3) | 4(0.5) |
Current smoking | |||||||
 No | 8806 (86.4) | 1381 (70.8) | 974 (67.6) | 761 (83.3) | 2835 (97.3) | 2016 (95.5) | 839 (97.8) |
 Yes | 1381 (13.6) | 570 (29.2) | 466 (32.4) | 153 (16.7) | 78 (2.7) | 95 (4.5) | 19 (2.2) |
Physical activity | |||||||
 Low or moderate | 7716 (75.9) | 1505 (77.5) | 1144 (79.6) | 707 (77.3) | 2162 (74.3) | 1527 (72.5) | 671 (78.5) |
 High | 2450 (24.1) | 438 (22.5) | 293 (20.4) | 208 (22.7) | 748 (25.7) | 579 (27.5) | 184 (21.5) |
CKD | |||||||
 No | 8167 (81.2) | 1863(98.2) | 1242(88.0) | 563(61.7) | 2753(95.4) | 1438(68.5) | 308(35.9) |
 Yes | 1896 (18.8) | 34(1.8) | 170(12.0) | 349(38.3) | 132(4.6) | 660(31.5) | 551(64.1) |
Obesity | |||||||
 No | 7779 (77) | 1705 (87.3) | 1206 (83.6) | 773 (85.1) | 2334 (81.7) | 1213 (57.8) | 548 (64.7) |
 Yes | 2329 (23) | 249 (12.7) | 236 (16.4) | 135 (14.9) | 523 (18.3) | 887 (42.2) | 299 (35.3) |
Hypertension | |||||||
 No | 7819 (77.1) | 1783 (92.5) | 1092 (76.2) | 463(50.9) | 2736(94.1) | 1423(67.6) | 322(37.6) |
 Yes | 2320 (22.9) | 144(7.5) | 341(23.8) | 447(49.1) | 171(5.9) | 683(32.4) | 534(62.4) |
Diabetes | |||||||
 No | 8585 (88.1) | 1811(97.8) | 1176(85.3) | 663(73.0) | 2727(97.7) | 1686(82.2) | 552(68.0) |
 Yes | 1164 (11.9) | 40(2.2) | 203(14.7) | 234(27.0) | 63(2.3) | 364(17.8) | 260(32.0) |
CVD history | |||||||
 No | 9844 (94.9) | 1985(99.3) | 1372(93.5) | 765(82.4) | 2947(99.5) | 2038(95.3) | 737(84.6) |
 Yes | 524 (5.1) | 14(0.7) | 96(6.5) | 163(17.6) | 16(0.5) | 101(4.7) | 134(15.4) |
Cancer history | |||||||
 No | 10,324 (99.6) | 1999(100) | 1461(99.5) | 922(99.4) | 2957(99.8) | 2123(99.3) | 862(99.0) |
 Yes | 44 (0.4 | 0 | 7 (0.5) | 6(0.6) | 6(0.2) | 16(0.7) | 9(1.0) |