Baseline characteristics of the men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor (KIHD) study.

Abbreviations: BMI = body mass index; CCA-IMT = intima-media thickness of the common carotid artery wall; CHD = coronary heart disease; DBP = diastolic blood pressure; hs-CRP = high sensitivity C-reactive protein; HDL = high-density lipoprotein; LDL = low-density lipoprotein; SBP = systolic blood pressure.aValues are given mean (SD) and percentages.bp for differences between smokers and non-smokers (one-way ANOVA).cPack-year denote the lifelong exposure to smoking, estimated as the product of years smoked and the number of tobacco products smoked daily at the time of examination.