Table 1 Baseline participant characteristics.

From: Integration of questionnaire-based risk factors improves polygenic risk scores for human coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes

Coronary heart disease

Derivation, N = 61,878 (FinnGen)

Validation, N = 242,687 (UK Biobank)

Men, N = 33,774

Women, N = 28,104

Men, N = 105,439

Women, N = 137,248

Cases

N = 2938

Non-cases

N = 30,836

Cases

N = 598

Non-cases

N = 27,506

Cases

N = 3272

Non-cases

N = 102,167

Cases

N = 1197

Non-cases

N = 136,051

Age, mean ± SD

60.2 ± 8.1

52.7 ± 10.7

61.4 ± 8.1

51.1 ± 10.7

59.9 ± 6.9

56.1 ± 8.2

61.2 ± 6.4

56.4 ± 7.9

Current smoker, n (%)

1945 (66.2)

13,978 (45.3)

148 (24.7)

5339 (19.4)

551 (16.8)

11,816 (11.6)

216 (18.0)

11,338 (8.3)

Any diabetesa, n (%)

233 (7.9)

1167 (3.8)

96 (16.0)

1100 (4.0)

119 (3.6)

1804 (1.8)

30 (2.5)

1293 (1.0)

Use of antihypertensive medications, n (%)

368 (12.5)

2933 (9.5)

196 (32.8)

3765 (13.7)

617 (18.9)

12,021 (11.8)

261 (21.8)

14,582 (10.7)

BMI, kg/m2, mean ± SD

27.6 ± 4.1

27.0 ± 4.1

28.4 ± 5.5

26.6 ± 5.2

28.1 ± 4.0

27.4 ± 4.0

27.6 ± 4.9

26.7 ± 4.9

Family history of CHD, n (%)

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

1599 (48.9)

37,375 (36.6)

672 (56.1)

59,195 (43.5)

Type 2 diabetes

Derivation, N = 69,159 (FinnGen)

Validation, N = 121,113 (UK Biobank)

Men, N = 38,861

Women, N = 30,298

Men, N = 55,898

Women, N = 65,215

Cases

N = 3234

Non-cases

N = 35,627

Cases

N = 1658

Non-cases

N = 28,640

Cases

N = 1532

Non-cases

N = 54,366

Cases

N = 1012

Non-cases

N = 64,203

Age, mean ± SD

58.9 ± 8.5

54.2 ± 10.9

57.6 ± 9.7

52.1 ± 11.1

60.2 ± 7.0

57.2 ± 8.1

59.9 ± 7.1

56.9 ± 7.9

Current smoker, n (%)

1612 (49.8)

16,656 (46.8)

374 (22.6)

5501 (19.2)

218 (14.2)

6076 (11.2)

136 (13.4)

5406 (8.4)

Use of antihypertensive medications, n (%)

948 (29.0)

4644 (13.0)

646 (39.0)

4727 (16.5)

669 (43.7)

11,365 (20.9)

366 (36.2)

9254 (14.4)

Statin therapy, n (%)

458 (14.2)

2,274 (6.4)

280 (16.9)

1,902 (6.6)

551 (36.0)

9645 (17.7)

257 (25.4)

5795 (9.0)

BMI, kg/m2, mean ± SD

30.3 ± 4.7

26.7 ± 3.8

31.6 ± 6.0

26.4 ± 4.9

31.1 ± 4.7

27.5 ± 3.9

31.8 ± 6.0

26.7 ± 4.8

Prevalent CVD, n (%)

744 (23.0)

3,896 (11.0)

217 (13.1)

1494 (5.2)

350 (22.8)

4811 (8.9)

124 (12.3)

2430 (3.8)

Gestational diabetes, n (%)

n/a

n/a

64 (3.9)

473 (1.7)

n/a

n/a

22 (2.2)

220 (0.3)

Family history of T2D, n (%)

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

452 (29.5)

9756 (17.9)

403 (39.8)

13,268 (20.7)

  1. The baseline participant characteristics are shown for cases and non-cases in the derivation (FinnGen) and validation (UK Biobank) datasets for CHD and T2D stratified by sex.
  2. Age age at enrollment, BMI body mass index.
  3. aT1D, T2D, and unspecified diabetes.