Table 3

Health examination survey data on lifestyle and biological risk factors

	H2000	H2011	FR2002	FR2007	FR2012	FH2017	Maamu
Smoking status
Cigarettes, cigars, pipefuls	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Smokeless tobacco (snus)			+	+	+	+
Alcohol consumption
AUDIT/AUDIT-C*		+		+		+	+
Questions concerning alcohol consumptions (frequency, amount)	+	+	+	+	+	+
Dietary habits
Food frequency questionnaire†	+	+		+	+	+
Questions concerning dietary habits, for example
Use of vegetables (frequency)	+	+	+	+		+	+
Use of fruits and berries (frequency)		+	+	+		+	+
Fat spread on bread	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Cooking fat	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Glass of milk per day (frequency and/or fat per cent)	+		+	+		+
Slices of bread per day (dark/mixed/white)	+	+	+	+			+
Physical activity/sedentary behaviour
Leisure-time physical activity	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Commuting physical activity	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Time of sitting per day	+	+		+	+	+
Sleep and sleeping questions
Hours of sleep per day	+	+		+	+	+	+
Getting enough sleep (self-estimated)		+		+	+	+
Anthropometric measures‡
Weight and height (body mass index calculated)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Waist circumference	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Hip circumference	+		+	+	+	+
Body composition determined by bioimpedance analysis	+	+		+	+	+
Blood pressure measurement‡	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Laboratory analyses (serum, plasma or blood)
Glucose, mmol/l (fasting)¶	+	+	+	+		+	+
HbA1c, % and/or mmol/mol	+	+	+		+	+	+
Total cholesterol, mmol/l	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
LDL-cholesterol§, mmol/l	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
HDL-cholesterol, mmol/l	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Triglycerides, mmol/l	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
25-hydroxyvitamin D, nmol/l	+	+			+	+	+
CRP, mg/l	+	+	+	+	+	+	+

*The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test.58 59
†Food frequency questionnaire.43 44
‡EHES manual.30
§Direct measurement and/or calculated with the Friedewald’s formula.
¶Participants were asked to fast four hours before health examination
CRP, C reactive protein; EHES, European Health Examination Survey; FH, FinHealth; FR, FINRISK; H2000, Health 2000; H2011, Health 2011; HbA1c, haemoglobin A1c; HDL, high density lipoprotein; LDL, low density lipoprotein; Maamu, Migrant Health and Wellbeing Study.