Table 2

Number of cases/mean and %/SD of individual and area level covariates among people with and without CVD conditions (n = 8804)

Covariate	With CVD condition		Without CVD condition
Covariate	N/mean	%/SD	N/mean	%/SD
Individual level
Age (y)	55.4	13.7	42.7	14.7
Sex
Men	1075	44.5	2742	42.9
Women	1340	55.5	3647	57.1
Social class
High	621	25.7	1800	28.2
Intermediate	1025	42.4	2661	41.6
Low	769	31.8	1928	30.2
Smoking
Never	872	36.1	2701	42.3
Light	143	5.9	434	6.8
Moderate	302	12.5	968	15.2
Heavy	323	13.4	910	14.2
Former	775	32.1	1376	21.5
Area level
Carstairs score	0.08	3.33	−0.31	3.24
Categorised deprivation
Most deprived	875	36.2	2083	32.6
Mid deprived	804	33.3	2116	33.1
Least deprived	736	30. 5	2190	34.3
Area social class	0.051	0.239	0.024	0.242
Area smoking score	0.792	0.305	0.767	0.307