Age- and sex-adjusted baseline characteristics of the sub-cohort and the heart failure cases in EPIC-Potsdam.

Baseline characteristics are expresses as age- and sex-adjusted means (standard error) or percentages.a the sub-cohort included 13 heart failure cases.b tertiles of N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) have been generated sex-specifically.c included only participants, who became cases after baseline and where not in the sub-cohort.d expressed as age-adjusted means (standard error).e expressed as unadjusted means (standard deviation) or percentages.f prevalent hyperlipidemia was defined by self-reporting of a confirmed diagnosis and/or the use of antihyperlipidemic drugs.Age- and sex-adjusted baseline characteristics of the sub-cohort and the heart failure cases in EPIC-Potsdam.