Descriptive characteristics of African American participants in seven cohorts included in African American BMI-Mortality Pooling Project.

AARP  =  NIH-AARP (formally known as the American Association of Retired Persons) Diet and Health Study; AHS2  =  Adventist Health Study 2; BWHS  =  Black Women's Health Study; CPSII  =  Cancer Prevention Study II; MEC  =  Multiethnic Cohort Study; PLCO  =  Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial; SCCS  =  Southern Community Cohort Study
aPopulation of ‘All eligible' includes 239,526 participants as follows: 256,409 participants provided by cohorts less N = 8899 missing BMI, N = 234 with BMI <15 kg/m2, N = 330 with BMI >60 kg/m2, N = 7 with missing gender, N = 37 with missing age at enrollment, N = 7343 with one year or less of follow-up, and N = 33 people who ended follow-up before age 30.
bAge at enrollment into individual cohorts.
cPopulation of ‘Healthy, non-smokers' includes 109,849 participants as follows: 239,526 eligible participants less 116,253 for former or current cigarette smoking, 5579 for cancer, 5731 for heart disease/heart attack, and 2114 for stroke. Covariates selected a priori for inclusion in multivariate models include education, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and marital status.
dCharacteristics tabulated for All Eligible population.
eThe BWHS did not differentiate between post high school and some college in ascertainment of educational attainment.
fIncludes heart disease, heart attack, stroke, or cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer).
Descriptive characteristics of African American participants in seven cohorts included in African American BMI-Mortality Pooling Project.