Health & Lifestyle
Health and Lifestyle Characteristics of GuLF STUDY Participants - Reported at Enrollment
06/07/16
Total (N = 31,609) % |
Male (N = 25,502) % |
Female (N = 6,105) % |
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Body Mass Index (BMI) | |||
Underweight | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.9 |
Normal | 26.7 | 24.0 | 38.2 |
Overweight | 41.2 | 43.7 | 30.7 |
Obese | 31.3 | 31.8 | 29.2 |
Drinking Status | |||
Never Drank | 6.3 | 5.9 | 8.1 |
Past Drinker | 17.9 | 17.2 | 20.7 |
Current Drinker | 75.8 | 76.9 | 71.2 |
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 |
Cigarette Smoking Status | |||
Never Smoked | 48.3 | 46.8 | 54.5 |
Past Smoker | 21.6 | 22.2 | 19.2 |
Current Smoker | 30.1 | 31.0 | 26.3 |
Amount Smoked, Current Smokers | |||
< 1 pack per day | 65.5 | 64.1 | 72.9 |
1+ packs per day | 34.5 | 35.9 | 27.1 |
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.
The Ns for Male and Female designations are 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.