Table. 1 Base line Characteristics of the study population
Variables | MetS | P-value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes (n = 802) | No (n = 1882) | |||||
Frequency | percentage | Frequency | percentage | |||
Age | 35–44 | 251 | 20.7 | 960 | 79.3 | < 0.01 |
45–54 | 259 | 31.7 | 559 | 68.3 | ||
55–70 | 292 | 44.6 | 363 | 55.4 | ||
Gender | Male | 345 | 26.0 | 983 | 74.0 | < 0.01 |
Female | 457 | 33.7 | 899 | 66.3 | ||
marital status | Single | 15 | 20.5 | 58 | 79.5 | < 0.01 |
Married | 711 | 29.3 | 1712 | 70.7 | ||
Widowed or divorced | 76 | 40.4 | 112 | 59.6 | ||
place of residence | City | 657 | 29.0 | 1609 | 71.0 | 0.02 |
Suburbs | 145 | 34.7 | 273 | 65.3 | ||
Education | < 6 | 526 | 34.7 | 991 | 65.3 | < 0.01 |
6–12 | 223 | 24.2 | 697 | 75.8 | ||
> 12 | 53 | 21.5 | 194 | 78.5 | ||
Employment status | Employed | 335 | 24.3 | 1041 | 75.7 | < 0.01 |
Unemployed | 467 | 35.7 | 841 | 64.3 | ||
Smoking | Yes | 116 | 27.4 | 307 | 72.6 | 0.23 |
No | 686 | 30.3 | 1575 | 69.7 | ||
Physical activity | 24-36.5 | 209 | 33.6 | 413 | 66.4 | < 0.01 |
36.6–44.9 | 497 | 31.1 | 1102 | 68.9 | ||
>=45 | 86 | 20.1 | 341 | 79.9 | ||
Economic Status | Poor | 314 | 30.0 | 733 | 70.0 | 0.90 |
Medium | 156 | 30.5 | 355 | 69.5 | ||
Rich | 330 | 29.4 | 791 | 70.6 | ||