Characteristics of the study population examined in 1969 in the Finnish and in 1965 in the Italian and Dutch cohorts of the Seven Countries Study
| Finland (n = 1248) | Italy (n = 1386) | Netherlands (n = 691) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||||||
| Age (years) | 59.0 | 5.5 | 54.5 | 5.0 | 54.8 | 5.5 | |||||
| Height (m) | 1.70 | 0.06 | 1.66 | 0.06 | 1.74 | 0.07 | |||||
| Smoking (pack years) | 21.4 | 17.0 | 15.1 | 15.0 | 19.5 | 13.9 | |||||
| BMI (kg/m2) | 24.7 | 3.8 | 25.8 | 3.8 | 24.8 | 2.7 | |||||
| Alcohol (g) | 6.5 | 13.0 | 86.8 | 58.3 | 6.8 | 12.5 | |||||
| Total energy intake (MJ) | 15.6 | 4.7 | 12.5 | 3.1 | 12.4 | 2.7 | |||||
| Energy excl. alcohol (MJ) | 15.4 | 4.6 | 10.0 | 2.6 | 12.2 | 2.8 | |||||
| FEV2-150 (ml) | 2703 | 733 | 2742 | 719 | 2960 | 699 | |||||
| Vitamin C (mg) | 91.7 | 35.3 | 45.9 | 24.0 | 91.8 | 39.5 | |||||
| Vitamin E (mg) | 6.7 | 2.4 | 9.92-151 | 3.6 | 17.9 | 6.6 | |||||
| β-carotene (mg) | 2.0 | 1.9 | 0.82-151 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.4 | |||||
| Fruit (g) | 174 | 183 | 191 | 180 | 152 | 109 | |||||
| Vegetables (g) | 79 | 60 | 53 | 50 | 176 | 69 | |||||
| Fish (g) | 39 | 46 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 23 | |||||