Background characteristics of the participating middle-aged women from Scotland and Sweden and OR calculations
| Scotland (n=6250) | Sweden (n=741) | p Value | OR | 95% CI | OR* | 95% CI | |||
| Age | |||||||||
| Mean(±SD) | 52.2 (7.6) | 52.7 (7.7) | 0.137 | ||||||
| Height | |||||||||
| Mean(±SD) | 161.1 (6.4) | 166.03 (6.5) | 0.001 | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | ||||||
| Self-assessed general health: | |||||||||
| Good Fair | 4533 | 72.5 | 542 | 73.4 | |||||
| 1125 | 18.0 | 166 | 22.5 | ||||||
| Bad | 592 | 9.5 | 30 | 4.1 | 2.47 | 1.70 to 3.59 | 1.79 | 1.22 to 2.64 | |
| Long-standing illness: | |||||||||
| Yes | 3003 | 48.0 | 272 | 37.0 | 1.57 | 1.35 to 1.84 | 1.44 | 1.22 to 1.70 | |
| No | 3247 | 52.0 | 463 | 63.0 | |||||
| Education: | |||||||||
| Low education | 1955 | 31.4 | 85 | 11.6 | 3.31 | 1.58 to 4.25 | 4.13† | 3.17 to 5.37 | |
| Medium education | 2009 | 32.3 | 289 | 39.4 | |||||
| High education | 2265 | 36.4 | 360 | 49.0 | |||||
*OR adjusted for age and education.
†OR adjusted only for age.