Table 1.
Characteristics of propensity score matched samples.
Fig 1.
BASE and BASE-II before and after propensity score matching.
Illustrating standardized mean differences between the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) and Berlin Aging Study-II (BASE-II) cohorts/samples in sociodemographic variables. Negative (positive) numbers signify greater scores for BASE (BASE-II) participants (unfilled circles). After the matching (black circles), the differences were small and not reliably different from 0 at p < 0.05.
Table 2.
Distribution of Life’s simple 7 (LS7) metrics in the matched BASE and BASE-II samples.
Fig 2.
Cardiovascular and self-rated health in BASE and BASE-II.
A) Aligned dot plots showing the distribution of the Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) score in the matched samples of BASE (n = 121) and BASE-II (n = 121). The LS7 score ranges from 0–14, and a higher score indicates better cardiovascular health. The mean, indicated by the horizontal line in the center, was 6.4±2.1 in BASE and 7.8±1.8 in BASE-II (p <0.001). B) Proportions of matched BASE and BASE-II participants meeting the criteria for inadequate, average or optimum cardiovascular health (CVH), according to the concept of the Life’s Simple 7. C) Self-rated health of matched BASE and BASE-II participants: Proportions of very good (black), good (dark grey), satisfactory (medium grey), fair (light grey), poor (white).
Table 3.
Standardized prediction effects (β) from regression analyses of Life’s simple 7 score.