Table 2.
Association of anthropometric measurements with CHD risk* according to gender: Turkish men and women (n 10 878) participating in the baseline survey of the Heart of Balcova Project, 2007–2009
| Men (n 3510) | Women (n 7368) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low CHD risk | Medium or high CHD risk | Low CHD risk | Medium or high CHD risk | |||||||
| (n 1645) | (n 1865) | (n 5679) | (n 1689) | |||||||
| Index | Mean | se | Mean | se | P | Mean | se | Mean | se | P |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 27·45 | 0·10 | 28·53 | 0·10 | <0·001 | 28·53 | 0·07 | 32·61 | 0·14 | <0·001 |
| WC (cm) | 91·68 | 0·25 | 95·26 | 0·24 | <0·001 | 82·96 | 0·16 | 93·74 | 0·27 | <0·001 |
| WHR | 0·90 | 0·02 | 0·93 | 0·01 | <0·001 | 0·79 | 0·01 | 0·85 | 0·02 | <0·001 |
| WHtR | 0·53 | 0·01 | 0·57 | 0·01 | <0·001 | 0·53 | 0·01 | 0·61 | 0·02 | <0·001 |
WC, waist circumference; WHR, waist:hip ratio; WHtR, waist:height ratio.
*
Framingham risk score.