Associations were examined between the key demographic variable of gender, age, and ethnicity, plus whether the participants were registered with a GP, and the key risk factors of reports of hours of physical activity, smoking status, BMI, whether taking fruit and vegetables daily, hypertension and having a high cholesterol/HDL ratio. OF the 24 tests performed only one reached significance at P < 0.01; namely, non-Caucasians were significantly more likely to have a higher BMI than Caucasians (t test, t = 3.3, P = 0.003, mean (SD) BMI: Caucasians = 27.5 (5.1), non-Caucasians = 31.2 (6.3)).