Health and Lifestyle Characteristics of GuLF STUDY Participants - Reported at Enrollment

04/07/2014

	Total (N=31,700) %	Male (N=25,565) %	Female (N=6,116) %
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Underweight	0.8	0.5	2.0
Normal	26.7	24.0	38.1
Overweight	41.2	43.7	30.7
Obese	31.3	31.8	29.3
Alcohol Use
Drinking Status
Never Drinker	6.3	5.9	8.2
Past Drinker	17.9	17.2	20.7
Current	75.8	76.9	71.1
Drinks Per Week, Current Drinkers
<3	48.2	44.4	65.0
3-6	24.9	25.9	20.6
7-13	14.3	15.3	9.5
14+	12.6	14.4	4.9
Tobacco Use
Cigarette Smoking Status
Never	48.3	46.8	54.5
Past	21.6	22.2	19.3
Current	30.1	31.0	26.3
Amount Smoked, Current Smokers
< 1 pack per day	65.5	64.1	72.8
1+ packs per day	34.5	36.0	27.2
Ever Use of Other Tobacco Products
Pipe	4.6	5.5	0.7
Cigar	11.8	14.0	2.7
Chewing Tobacco	10.1	12.4	0.7
Snuff	14.5	17.8	1.0

The Ns for individual characteristics may be slightly less than the total N due to a small percentage of don't know and refusal responses.

Alcohol use based on self-reported consumption of any alcoholic beverages (eg. wine coolers, beer, wine, champagne, liquor such as whiskey, rum, gin, vodka, scotch, or liqueurs, and also any other type of alcohol) in the past 12 months.

Report does not include Vietnamese-speaking participants who took a short version of the enrollment questionnaire.

Preliminary interim data.

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